Singer Featherweight Sewing Machine
Singer Featherweight Sewing Machine
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 1941 Singer Featherweight 221 Sewing Machine w Attachments Scroll Front Exc  US $399.99
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 Singer Featherweight FW75 Sewing Machine 66 Built in Stitches Automatic Needle US $299.99
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Antique Sewing Machines – What You Should know!
Sewing machines have been mass-produced global for more than two-hundred years. Early models featured exclusive designs to add beauty and appeal to buyers. The wide variety of styles and manufacturers make antique sewing machines a favorite collectible. Because of the quality workmanship and heavy materials of the early machines many of the antique sewing machines are still working models.
The antique sewing machines will typically be made of cast iron and feature the patent information in a noticeable location. The machines may have a hand crank or a treadle, which was a flat pedal for both feet to provide the movement for the sewing mechanism. The treadle machines would be mounted onto their own table or cabinet, while several other machines would be in a carrying case and the machine would be placed on the kitchen table.
As a miniature, antique sewing machines become the most desirable, as they are smaller working models that served as marketing's samples, used while traveling or for mending. These miniature machines doubled as children's sewing machines especially for use by young people, since these girls were expected to be trained how to sew. These machines that are marketed as a child's machine were frequently painted in a beautiful color of have floral motifs painted onto the body of the machine.
More then the past two hundred years a lot of sewing machine companies were booming for a time before closing operations, making for the wide variety of machines to be found. Some companies were not able to survive having their manufacturing facilites converted for wartime use, but also lost go post-war Japan's ability to produce cheap products.
The brand of Singer becomes the earliest sewing machine company continues to have antique sewing machines that are the most recognizable and most popular among collectors. The Singer Featherweight model #221, referred to as the Perfect Portable, continues to be a favorite of quilters.
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How to sew a drop-shoulder man's shirt for costume?
I want to sew but I have very little experience. There is a Colonial Fair coming up in a few months and I already have my grandmother making a coat but i wanted to know how to make a drop-shoulder shirt and flat-bottom vest with lapels to go with it. I want to gain experience by doing this as well. Is there any website or better yet, a video that will show in detail the steps on how to read a sewing pattern? Or a website that will show how to sew a man's shirt easily? I am a guy but I still enjoy the hobby and I only have a Singer Featherweight sewing machine. It only has a straight stitch with back-stitching on it so its not much. I'd like to be able to do this in a week or so and with a small sewing machine with limited abilities and me with little experience. what kind of fabric would i use for a shirt? can i get a pattern at jo-ann's? detailed answers would be appreciated.
Go get this pattern ($2 at Joann Fabrics Thursday through Saturday this week):
http://butterick.mccall.com/b3072-products-180.php?page_id=385 and 4 1/2 yards of preshrunk muslin, 45-60" wide (yes, it's more than the pattern calls for, but you can use the extra for practice and for presscloths). Preshrunk will make for easier sewing because you won't have to launder and then press all that fabric before starting. (Normally, you'd launder in hot water, dry in a hot dryer, and then press the fabric before you lay out the pattern.)
That pattern is designed for men about 5'10" tall; if you're much taller than that, you'll have to lengthen the sleeves and the bottom of the shirt; if you're much shorter, you'll shorten the pattern. There will be markings on the pattern to tell you where.
Measure your greatest chest circumference in inches, and choose the size of the pattern by that measurement (you'll need a size 36 if your chest measures 36", etc.). Inside the pattern will be pattern pieces and a set of instructions, which will take you step by step through the construction of the shirt.
There is nothing in that shirt that requires the use of anything except a straight stitch sewing machine -- your featherweight will do just fine. Read the instructions carefully all the way through, then choose the pattern pieces for the size of shirt you want to make and lay them out on the fabric according to the diagram in the pattern instructions. Cut the pieces out carefully and then sew according to the instructions. If you get stuck, holler -- but I doubt you will.
You will have more trouble with the vest pattern... there are a lot of buttonholes to make (difficult to make matching buttonholes by hand without a lot of practice). If you don't mind machine buttonholes, I bet your grandmother would help you learn to do that. And the welt pockets will probably also be a bit more difficult than you'd hope, but still doable.
How to read a pattern envelope: http://www.threadsmagazine.com/item/4958/to-judge-a-pattern-start-with-its-cover
Some helps on laying out pattern pieces correctly:
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/20946606
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/20946740
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