Gray fox

The blocks are paper pieced, so only straight lines, no turns or inset corners. Handcrank machines are super for this sort of piecing.

ThayerRags

Welcome to the Quilt Board Gray fox!

Just out of curiosity, is your case a snap-on type case that looks kinda like mine?

I have my 1948 Singer 201K4 in it, but I think that the case is a more recent vintage than 1948. I've been trying to figure out what machine may have originally come in my case. It was empty when I got it.

CD in Oklahoma

Gray fox

Thank you for the welcome, ThayerRags. Your machine is beautiful! Mine has no lid, sadly, and I haven't been looking but will start now. On both ends of the base there is a 'D' shaped connection device, with a 'D' shaped opening -- hadn't noticed before how symmetrically that was designed. The curved part of the 'D' faces downward. No moving parts, just a metal piece with an opening. Is that how your lid attaches?

purplefiend

Gray Fox,
I really like your quilt so far. I have a 1936 Singer 201K hand crank, I like to treadle it, easier on my shoulder.
Yours is prettier, love the 2 tone color scheme.

monopas,
Its easy to sew with the hand crank. Its really not as bad as one would think.
Sharon in Texas

ThayerRags

Yes. The spring-loaded latches on the cover have a d-shaped pin that go into the openings on the base. The latches are hinged at the top, and operated by pulling the bottom of the latch out away from the case. My machine is down at the shop, so I can’t get a photo of the inside of the case right now.

The machine is one of two hand crank machines setting ready for my wife to use during a power outage if she wants to (the other one is a Singer 216G that zigzags). It takes the same class 66 bobbin as her go-to machine (Singer 401A), so if she’s working on something that requires a straight stitch, she can set the 201 up in front of the window where the light comes in good enough to see, and transfer her thread and bobbin out of her 401A to complete or continue a project while waiting for the power to come back on.

CD in Oklahoma

monopas

The hand cranking seems pretty workable in general, I have a 66 that will be a hand crank once I clean it up. It was just that the piecing looked pretty scary to me, angles and bias cut stitching, that I thought would be hard to get right with only one hand to use when guiding. I know very little about actual sewing, so I was just being appreciative of something that looked complex to me.

I have looked on in enjoying awe of the quilts you've shown, too.

Rodney

Thanks for posting your quilt. Beautiful work!
Rodney