Originally Posted by
Cari-in-Oly
Take a look at Some of the older Brother machines. There's one on ebay right now, I think it's a Pacesetter XL703 or something like that. They have a small enough arm to do a sleeve cuff.
Cari
thanks! I'll follow up in that.
I found this post with some actual measurements
Bernina from the 70s, Elna from the 70s, Pfaff from the 70s, free arm Singers from the 70s and earlier (all the others from earlier if free arm too). In fact most of the earlier machine with free arms had real free arms!
All the Pfaff 12 series with free arms have narrow free arms - and narrow means narrow -
Pfaff 1222E 2.5" from front to back, and 9.25" circumference. The end of the free arm is 1" from the center needle position.
Janome 115110 (Kenmore 19110) modern machine has 3.25 front to back, 10.25" around and 3" from needle center is the end of the free arm - pretty typical of today's machines.