Originally Posted by
tropit
Thanks for all of the great tips everyone! I grew up sewing on a Singer 15 model and I do love my Slant-O-Matic so dearly. Perhaps, for nostalgia sake, I'll look into a Singer 15. The 301 has always caught my eye too. There there's the treadle...hummm...
I do have Leah Day's CD. It's good and she does claim that you don't even have to drop the feed dogs (and I don't, obviously.) I'm still have a lot of trouble though. Maybe it's not in the machine, but in practice makes perfect.
~ Cindy
Oh yes, those machines speak to you at night, and convince you to pick up their brothers and sisters. I have no resistance at all, as evidenced by my signature.
And I'm going to pick up a 99 in a cabinet today to boot.
I do find the slants-o-matics more challenging to FMQ with, but it can be done. I think it's best to get the hang of the FMQ on the other machines first, then move to the SOM, just because the muscle memory is there then you just have to learn to massage the SOM's idiosyncrasies.