Featherweight price
09-06-2010, 03:35 PM
#91
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Location: Southern California
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Originally Posted by aardvarq
Personally, being 6'2" tall and a guy, I consider my 301A my personal featherweight :-)
I may end up giving my tan 221J featherweight to my sister, she is not so tall :-)
Aardie.
I may end up giving my tan 221J featherweight to my sister, she is not so tall :-)
Aardie.
09-06-2010, 06:57 PM
#92
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Location: Central TX
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I bought mine on Ebay for $225 plus shipping. It was in excellent shape in the original box with all the different feet. It did not have the manual but I was able to get a reproduction so I would know how to maintain it.
09-07-2010, 08:24 AM
#93
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: West Virginia
Posts: 150
OK, three new sisters in need of a featherweight, said they were quite short, so 3x.75% = 2.25 skant sisters plus my original sister, leaving me with 3.25 sisters using the skant 1/4 sister height allowance :-0
Lucky me, I am now just skant of 4 sisters!
Aardie
Lucky me, I am now just skant of 4 sisters!
Aardie
09-07-2010, 06:17 PM
#95
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Location: San Antonio, Texas
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Originally Posted by merryhare
My very first machine when I was 12 was a white one--about the last year that they were produced. I loved it and made all my clothes on it until mid college years when I made enough money to buy a standard zig-zag machine. I have had 3 since then in the past 15 years, my grandmother's white one which I bought her and 2 from ebay. A white one and a black one. Now I use an Elna grasshopper which is far superior to the featherweight but most people are too enamored with the featherweight being the "perfect" little machine to even give the Elna a look. It has more room under the arm both horizontally and vertically than a featherweight and is about the same weight and size in the case.
09-08-2010, 03:34 PM
#99
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Location: West Virginia
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Loya99, you are certainly correct.
I stand corrected. You are definitely honorable sister number 1.
You can fight it out with my birth sister after the funeral and see who walks away with the most sewing machines:-)
Brother gets the rifles and shotguns, sister gets the snub nose pistol, so that collection is already taken care of.
Speaking of which, you might want to see if sister has her purse with her before you start a brawl at the wake over sewing machines, you know what I mean? :wink:
Oh, but that leaves the stash and the quilt collection. I smell trouble one of these days.
Aardie.
I stand corrected. You are definitely honorable sister number 1.
You can fight it out with my birth sister after the funeral and see who walks away with the most sewing machines:-)
Brother gets the rifles and shotguns, sister gets the snub nose pistol, so that collection is already taken care of.
Speaking of which, you might want to see if sister has her purse with her before you start a brawl at the wake over sewing machines, you know what I mean? :wink:
Oh, but that leaves the stash and the quilt collection. I smell trouble one of these days.
Aardie.
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