I have the white color Featherweight. It's so cute and sews a perfect stitch. It's a little smaller then the black Featherweights. I take it to classes and can easily sit it about anywhere and sew. Easy to maintain, just clean and oil, nothing to get out of whack and dependable. I have a Singer 301 and it's a workhorse. No tension problems, no stitch problems, sews with any type of thread, it sews smooth is how I describe it. I read and heard from many machine dealers the machine that get the title of the best machine ever made is given to the Singer Rocketeer model. It was the one I really wanted but in my search I was GIVEN the FW and 301 and don't need the Rockeeter, want one but don't need it. LOL.