Vintage Singer 201 Free from Craigs List
#22
Originally Posted by Kitsapquilter
Nice machine...how about your name "wild Irish Rose".
thats a great name and i'll let the lady know the name in the thank you note i'm sending her along with a fall table runner as a thank you gift.
#23
Originally Posted by Annaquilts
I just bought a 201 and put it in my treadle table as the motor was broke on it. I think you will realy like it. Sofar I am pretty impressed adn i think you will be too.
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I found one of those 201's on CL for $30. Drove an hour to get it. It only had a zipper foot. All I wanted was the beautiful queen anne cabinet anyway. But I got it home and tried it out and fell in love. A couple weeks later the man I got it from called and said he found some bobbins, would I want them. He brought them to the place I work. Then months later I got a note at work. He had lost my phone number so he took a note for me to where I work one hour a week. They misplaced the note for a month. When I got the note I called him. He said he found a couple feet, would I like them. Sure, so we drove up there and he had a big box of stuff. It has a buttonholer, all kinds of feet, zigzagger, blind hemmer, beautiful manual and on and on. It was his wife's mother's sewing machine. She hated to part with it but they were moving to assisted living.
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I'm setting out, in a little while, to pick one up....Woooo Hooooo. Found it on Craigslist. It is in a nice little #40 maple cabinet:
http://www.ismacs.net/singer_sewing_...ny/40_cab.html
It doesn't have a cord but I don't care, I'll just pick one up. It does have the knee/foot pedal, though.
http://www.ismacs.net/singer_sewing_...ny/40_cab.html
It doesn't have a cord but I don't care, I'll just pick one up. It does have the knee/foot pedal, though.
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Originally Posted by cabbagepatchkid
I'm setting out, in a little while, to pick one up....Woooo Hooooo. Found it on Craigslist. It is in a nice little #40 maple cabinet:
http://www.ismacs.net/singer_sewing_...ny/40_cab.html
It doesn't have a cord but I don't care, I'll just pick one up. It does have the knee/foot pedal, though.
http://www.ismacs.net/singer_sewing_...ny/40_cab.html
It doesn't have a cord but I don't care, I'll just pick one up. It does have the knee/foot pedal, though.
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I'm thinking I would like mine better if I had a different foot on it - what is a free motion foot like to use? how does it work? Can you see what you are doing? I can see better with my 403 but it might just be the foot. I do like my 201 a lot.
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