Jan, you will love using that 301! I really wasn't that interested in getting a 301 because when I take a machine to class, or a Girls Night Out, or use an electric machine at home, it is usually a featherweight. I was not enamored with the looks of the 301. But once I got one and started using her - geeze, I love sewing with that machine. Now, when I need a machine to take out to something, I will take either the 301 or one of my FW's, just depends on what I am doing.

Nancy

Red, maybe a dark pink?

http://sacramento.craigslist.org/atq/3043697872.html

Yes, she knows about it. We like to wait until the deal is done on machines that we're interested in because they get pounced on by other folks that are lurkers here...

I'd be hard pressed not to at least go look at that one if I was closer! :)

Becky, from the Vintage Treadle Sewing Machine yahoo list posted her You Tube videos of her drawing room cabinets...they're kind of neat to watch... I have the "oak style" with my 115 in it. I want the other one now too!! :D

Part 1- http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=oPmANs6QJic

Part 2- http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=hrw9oDfNMLI

Anamaria, Candace and I have been discussing that machine. I called and made an offer. We will see if he sells it? It has none of the attachments so it is not complete. You wouldn't be able to use it for buttonholes, but I am sure that attachment could be found. The guy said it is "very old" that he is 42 and the machine was purchased when he was born! Candace and I figured that machine was made in the 70's. I would like to have it because it is red - but, he has it overpriced unless someone just has to have it because of the color. I really want a totally red Japanese 15, those are really pretty! I am not that interested in this two-tone one just because of the color. He is advertising it as an antique' and it is barely a vintage! Anyway, if I found one like it at a flea market, yard sale, for a reasonable price I would buy it - but, not for $100!

Nancy

Jan, I have a 1953 301a, and I just LOVE her to pieces!! She is my piecing machine....her straight stitches are just perfectly straight, and make the most accurate seams I have ever gotten for quilting. I love the little tick, tick, tick sound she makes while sewing, and although it "feels" lightweight, it sews very strong. I never have a problem going over thicker seams. I even sew through some seams that my modern low-end Brother machine will not sew through.

Annamaria, that's a really cool machine!!

I actually proved that point last year with a machine, that I had bid on at shopgoodwill.com and decided against it. When I could not retract my bid, I mentioned it here, and viola! I was outbid. I learned that after I mentioned one I really wanted, and got shot down. Lesson learned and used. But that red is a cute machine though. I would have to think about it hard if I was near it, but agree that it is overpriced.

My daughter says shes never sewing with any other machines again. She made a purse on my 301a and loves it. That will stand until she sews on the 503 and then she changes her mind. I love both of them as well as my FW.