Originally Posted by
vintagemotif
<snip>Keeping it simple is my one big motto. My favorite decorative machine right now is the Singer 224 since it has the cams, uses standard needles, and is made to treadle.
The 224 sounds very interesting to me. I'll have to do some research on it. Did that model still have the steel gears? That is my one must be criteria. We have some machines with plastic gears and they sew well, but they have no real interest to me other than being a learning experience.
Joe