You can find the manual online at Singer, or do a web search for free sewing machine manual and download one that way. I was lucky that the original one was with mine, but I had played on my great grandma's forever so never thought about what the manual would say anyway. You can do it, just jump in and swim-I mean sew.

You would need a zig zag machine for the monogrammer. The 301 is a straight stitch only machine. The zig zag attachment doesn't work terribly well, your fabric has to be heavily starched for it to work properly.
Sharon

I'd like be her adoptive mother too! :mrgreen:
Sharon

I have a 99K, EL 059206. Don't have a picture but it has the case which is a little ragged and all the attachments in a little green singer box. It sews quietly and evenly. I paid $99.99 for it and hope it was a good deal. I got it at the Kidney Community Thrift shop. Can you tell me anything about it?

I also got a Spartan RF J 9-8 that has Made in Great Britain written on it. It has no motor, foot pedal or electrical cord. The fly wheel turns very easily but has no belt. I paid 24.99 for it and hope someday to get it repaired.
Both machines have very good finishes and decals on them...
Thanks

I have a singer 301 shortbed. She is wonderful and easy to transport in her little suitcase. Very strong machine and quilts with ease. Many attachments for her available on ebay at reasonable prices. There are still parts for her and any good singer repair person can make her sing. She is very easy to maintain, much like the featherweights.

Did you notice that the shipping was only $500. Just pocket change, I wish. lol Kathie

I did my first fix! No, not drugs, sewing machine.
Yesterday at quilt club, one fine lady had her white 221K featherweight there. She and another lady played with it for 2 hours trying to get it to sew. So, 15 min before quitting time, I had to take a look.
I got the bobbin out easily - after reading online (ahem)
Found the undercarriage FULL of thread.
Got that all cleaned out.
No go. Everytime you started her up, she'd fill the bobbin case with thread again and quit.
We oiled, and we oiled, and we oiled some more.
But still no go.
So, in a moment of bravery (or insanity), I asked if I could take it home to look at it and see what I could do. And she agreed!!!!!!!!!!!
So home we went, and onto the kitchen table she landed.
I carefully took out screws, and taped them to a paper with a label as to where it goes.
I even took the bobbin case apart, and took the tension spring off and everything. Then I dropped one of those screws on the floor. A carpet floor. The screw that's about half the size of an ant. So, down on my knees I searched, and I found it!!!! That REALLY surprised me.
I reassembled the bobbin case and left the tension quite a bit looser than it was, just so that I could feel the pull but the bobbin didn't fall down when I held the thread.
Put it together again, and the same thing happened.
Then, I had a eureka moment. I had had the similar problem with my own Janome recently, and the problem was a burr on the bobbin case. So, I started looking for burrs. There were a few gouges on the hole in the needle plate. I didn't think they were big enough to be a problem, but I burnished them flat anyway.
That was it. That was the problem.
With a fiddle of the upper tension, she was away.
She sews a beautiful stitch. I filled up a whole 8x8 piece of double fabric with thread just waiting for the problem to happen again, but it didn't.
That little burr was enough to stop that machine from sewing.
So I called her mama, and she'll be going home soon as we can get together.
But not before I play with it just a little bit more......

I didnt, I do not do the eBay thing at all anymore. Its fun to look at and thats all I do.

I have a 185K that I am fixing to repaint and I am not sure what color or is I am even going to keep it or not. I have been working in the studio non stop it seems getting these machines knocked out and getting ready to have my big blow out.

I just ordered 150 spoked handwheels and 200 handcranks today. The reproduction handwheels are really nice and they fit the shafts like the originals. Not like the Chinese crap out there. So I am selling the kits and the parts separate so if anyone needs them let me know.

Billy

The machine is in Romania and she will only ship to Europe. Nice machine though.......


Billy

Billy, check the add again. It says ships to the United States and Europe. Kathie