My mother's Featherweight sewing machine- the one I learned to sew on and still love to use
I am in a Facebook Group called "Singer Featherweight 221 & 222"
Featherwieght sewing machines have an almost cult like following. They are wonderful little machines and that's what my mother taught my sister and I to sew on. We (my sister and I) are baby boomers, and it seems like we and many of our friends used to sew an aweful lot of our own clothing. Sewing was cheaper than finished store bought clothes when we were kids,
I have my mother's Featherweight and it is really precious to me. Last week I found (thanks to my husband) a couple of Featherweights on an auction site. One was a 221- a standard Featherweight, the other was a 222- a rare, free amr Featherwieght. I lost both auctions. The 222 went for around $900.00- and that's considered a deal!
It occured to me that many of us on this Facebook Group are something of a group of sewing machine collectors in addition to being in love with our featherweights. Below is what a wrote and the responces"
"I wonder how many of us have a collection of sewing machines- including Featherweights? I have one Featherweight, one Singer Touch and Sew from the 70s, a Husqvarna from the last ten years, a serger, two treadle sewing machines in cabinets and one treadle sewing machine head- no cabinet. Also have my mother in law's maybe model 15, Singer in a cabinet."3 featherweights... thus far...😄- 2 Featherweight’s, 2 Vikings, singer 99 and 201, Elna, 2 sergers, universal, Singer treadle and a White shuttle treadle and 5 miniatures. Guess that is why I finally decided I needed a studio...
- Yikes! 6 featherweights, one 301 Singer, 2 pfaffs, 1 Juki serger and one german hand painted large machine.
- 3 221s, 1 Red S 222K, 3 Bernina sewing machines and a Bernina serger.
- I have 4 black featherweights, 1 white featherweight, 1 Singer Treadle in cabinet, 1 White treadle in a cabinet, 1 Singer 15-91 in a cabinet, 1 Singer 16-66 in a cabinet. One Singer Athena 2000 which is giving up the ghost. And my newest is a Janome S7.
- 2 Singer featherweight 221s, a 99, a 66, 2 Janomes, 2 Babylock sergers, and a White!💕
- I do now!
- One 221K, two 201K, one 66K, one 99K, one185K and a 239K73. The my wife has....
- 3 x 221, 2 x 222. Several (🤷🏻♀️) 66, 99, 201, a 15 and a hand crank Phoenix from the 1890s. My lotus 66 treadle. Then there is a few others like Husky 21a, lemair, Palmer. A few moderns- janome, 3 overlocker, 2 coverstitch, an embroidery and an industrial for good measure. I think there’s a partridge in a pear tree there too! Lol
- 2-201s, 29K, 2-66, 221, brother, white, Janome,, 66treadle, 99, 192spartan, Kenmore , HA-1
- A feather weight circa 1952, 20+ yr brother, 25+ yr Kenmore, 10 yr old, singer embroidery machine, viking Emerald, 2 viking sergers, 2 viking rubies, and HQ16
- If I count in toy machines, I think I’m up to about 60 machines. Four of them are Featherweights.
I collect sewing machines, and find a lot of joy in servicing them and making them sew again. - I have with my daughter Bernina 830s named John, George, Paul and Ringo.
I have 14 222s and 19 221s. Then have Brothers for embroidery and Bea is a Statler - I have 18 vintage Singers (down to 2 featherweights) and one modern Juki DX2000QVP.
- 5 featherweight, 1 Elna,2 treadles, 2 Janome, one singer about a 1990, and 2 301. 13 total
- 2 treadles, 2 featherweights, 2 Elna, 2 Bernina, one Singer from the 40’s, a machine called the zig zag, one Baby Lock serger, 1 Husquana serger, 1 older basic Brother, 2 Singer 201, 1 Singer 301, 1 Pfaff hobby machine. So sorry I listed these. I had no idea
- 6 FWs including 1 222 Red S and 2 blacksides
1 Singer 66 handcrank
2 301s…See More - Add to our list a janome9000, Janome
Little take along machine. A 99k, alittle toyota sewer, three various years kenmore,
Two sergers, a cover machine. a juke 2010 ,and the machine that works with wool roving. -
I have 2 FW, 3 301, a 99, a 503, 2 old Berninas & an Elna. Only purchased one FW & the 301a. Total investment is @$700.
- I have 10 black FWS, one is a Centennial, + 1 white FW, I have some black 301s and a tan 301, I have numerous treadles, some Singers, some other brands, I have several Wheeler and Wilsons, including one No. 8 that has a full set of glass presser feet, …See More
- Wow that’s funny I too have my mother in laws first sewing machine. it’s a Kenmore from the 70’s. It’s what I started with. I started collecting more machines about 2 yrs ago when a friend got me into quilting. Another church friend gave me her serger …See More
I have 1 Featherweight, 1 Brother, 1 Babylock, and 1 Child's Singer. Got rid of 2 old Singers and 1 Brother 770 last year. Just did not need 7 machines 🤔- 🤔. Where do you all keep these machines????
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, I wonder about this as well.
- all over the house!
- I have a genie from the 70s, two other steel gear machines from the 70s, 2 featherweight 221, a brother Disney embroidery / sewing machine, and a serger. I actually downsized last year and got rid of four other machines!
- Oh boy, confession time. 😳 6 black 221s including an Oct. 1933 and 3 centenials, one each of the 301s, a 401, 2 404s, a T&S 600, Singer 15-91, Singer 29-4, 5 vintage Kenmores, Pfaff 332 & ?, a no frills plain Sailrite Yachtsman, a Wheeler & Wilson No.…See More
- I’m a slacker... centennial FW, 1953 FW, Viking longarm, singer 99, pfaff model unknown right now, another singer model unknown as I’m using the stand for my new Viking designer Epic.
- I have a 25 year old Brother, an older Bernina serger, a new computerized Brother & a 1953 Featherweight.
- I have a 36 featherweight, a 42 201, a knee lever Singer in cabinet, a old Bernina 830, a new 830, a 590, a Singer Precision, a Singer Futura and a Kenmore 1/2 size...oh and a serger. Hoping to buy a long arm in the next few weeks😁
- I have 2 Featherweights, 1 black and one white,; a Husquvatna Viking D1, a serger, a needle punch machine. An portable Singer 95, singer treadle, Elna Lotus, and a Hand I Quilter long arm.
- We have a 222 a white and 5 black 221. 2 treadles, 2 berninas 2 child’s vintage, 2 Vikings , a Janome a serger and long arm. We use them all for different things.
About five years ago, we had over a hundred machines total. Toys, hand cranks, treadles, featherweights (30) and 4 newer embroidery machines. Even two Moldicot, which are very rare. When we had to give up our house that we designed and had built bec…See Morehave any FWs you want to let go?- My first a 758 touch & sew, 2 genies, 222, white 221, 5 blk 221, 201-2, 99K, 128! Its a horrible obsession and my Husband supports it! I am ashamed to admit I collect more than I sew. Plus I do not look for them they seem to jump out at me...Ok, confession time. I have a Janome NQM2016, Janome 9400, a FW, a 99, 2-201-2’s, 1-66 Treadle RE. 💖
- . I have ten machines
- I have lots of sewing machines, my daughter moves and didn’t have space in her new digs. Probably 7 in all.
- I have 2 featherweights, a treadle in cabinet, a baby lock, old commercial machine,and one I can’t remember name of but use often. And a Singer clone made in Japan after WW 2 that is in cabinet and operates like a SINGER 65. I never hear anyone mention these Singer clones. I wonder if anyone has them. I had a hard time learning to thread it but like the way it sews.
- I forget I do have a Singer toy machine that was my Mother in laws. It works too. She was born in 1910.
- And a Bernina serger. I may have others I don’t remember stored somewhere. I need to get rid of some but not my featherweights..
- I hesitate to even count. 5 FW, 2 treadles, a 201, a 301, a 401, an inexpensive brother, an 8700 Janome, and 6 others that I can count off the top of my head oh and the child's chain stitch. And 1 FW table. We are known as the Singer Salvage and Resuce Company by our friends.
- 2 Featherweights,a Spartan,a Pfaff, a Janome,a Sew Easy,a Kenmore,Singers, 6 older,my Mother- in-laws in a cabinet,my Mother's treadle,my newer Singer,a Serger. the Singers are a Rocketeer, a 501, 2 Touch and Sew, Golden Touch and Sew,and a fifties model..Favorities are the Spartan and the Pfaff.
Jessica, my sister's granddaughter, sewing on her great grandmmother's sewing machine 2015
Saturday, August 8, 2020
For the love of a Sewing machine!
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