Originally Posted by
miriam
It is an ok machine but I would rather use a 403, 503 or a 603. I guess the 401 are kind of cute if you like piggy noses.
At the time I was used to looking at Bernina 900 Nova, and I had my great aunts Singer 99K. I had sewn on a Husqvarna 21 from the 1950s. These were all old machines to me, in the case of the 99K, very old. The new ones were computerized to a more or lesser degree. The 401 came of as a monstrous thing, I'm still not sure what the idea behind it was; angular and curvy at the same time. Now I don't mind the litte pig nose at all. The 400 series have quite a uniformed look, like they all clearly belong in the same family.