Wow, that brings back wonderful memories. I learned how to sew on a machine exactly like that. It was my Mother's and she gave it to me when I left home for college. I was the most popular girl in the dorm because I had the sewing machine....I met just about everyone in the dorm. The first year I was married, my husband bought me a surprise Christmas gift....a new Singer machine but he traded in my mother's machine to get it. I almost killed him.