Yay! A new machine

You better duck, Kate is going to be throwing a book at your head.

Congratulations!!!

Congratulations! Kate will probably have much more than that to say when she reads your post. "Happy Sewing Day to you1. Emily

Yeeee Haw! You have one of THE BEST small machines ever made! I have one - a basic ZZ. There's also an SP in my web site (URL below... ) Do check it out and tell us more! :)

Not a bit - while I did have to BUY my Lotus, I was GIVEN both my Featherweight, my treadle, *and* my Jones hand crank! I ain't complaining if a fellow enthusiast scores a good deal and gives a delightful little orphan a loving home! :D

Thanks! I knew there would be a few people here that would appreciate my news :o)

This one is the ZZ too. A friend of my mother-in-law is moving house to live with her son and has to declutter rapidly. She was going to throw it away and my mother in law saved it hoping she's find someone who wanted it if she could get it working which I did. I knew if I didn't want it I would find someone else, but it's lovely.

The bobbins from my Bernina work in it which was a relief as it didn't have any with it. It has the instruction book and a sewing guide, a zipper foot and another which I haven't looked at properly yet, a seam ripper and a screwdriver.

I'm going to have to source some needles as I only have my Bernina ones. I have to admit that I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to different machines having learnt on the Bernina at school and actively sought an identical one when the time came to buy one for myself!

One this that I found amazing is that everything is perfectly designed on the Elna Lotus. At one point there was me, my husband, my mother in law and her husband staring at is in amazment when we found the spring to get the bobbin out safely! *laughs*

Sarah

It, as do most machines, takes standard needles. No need to "source" - whatever fits your Bernina will do nicely.

Good! But the bobbins are really easy to order. My OSMG keeps them in stock, so if you have difficulty...

Lucky you getting the zipper foot! Mine came with the standard metal foot, the plastic ZZ foot, and the darning foot (has a lever and a spring on it and a square hole, rather than the conventional two 'toes'). A zip foot and a replacement ZZ foot will be ordered... The ZZ foot has obviously been chipped by a 'needle accident' at some point (!) in its past!

Inside the top cover you *should* have:

Box of needles (any make will do - just buy good quality!) needle threader

2 spare bobbins Seam ripper (mine had the original, but it was broken, so I replaced it

- better a working one than a dangerous one!) slim oil bottle tiny screwdriver alternative feet (the collection varies according to model and year!) Feed dog cover for darning/quilting/FM embroidery

I'm awaiting a copy of the manual by email: when I get it, I'll see if you could also be sent a copy.

It takes standard needles, same as the Bernina! :) I usually use Schmetz or Rhein (who make the needles in the Bernina packest! I buy in boxes of 100... )

Cute, innit! :D I love the way everything stows away so neatly. Mine is... hrm... 'cosmetically challenged' after some considerable time in slightly damp storage! Wilf replaced the end flap as it was beyond redemption. I'm still trying to persuade DH to rub down and repaint the others so I can use it on bridal things without a qualm. I've prepared a page for it, but I can't remember if it's published and on the site yet. The SP I got for a friend is: I gave it to her when she gave me her Featherweight and a Lotus decal 66 treadle - since re-homed to another friend.

Over the weekend I have been treadling on the 15-88. That too behaves impeccably - except when she wants to set off backwards!

Note that some Berninas do take a different length needle. All of mine do and I would not use those needles in a standard machine. Now having typed that I also have a couple of Singers that take a different needle size. Best to find the correct needle for each machine. Berninas are not mutually interchangeable with other brands across the board..

Singer 306 and 319 do take a different needle if they were not retimed, but I didn't know Berninas cannot use a Schmetz, Organ, or Singer needle. I have a Willcox and Gibbs that takes a special hard-to-find needle, and the toy machines take a small needle. Some of the very old machines will take some of the serger needles - it's a trial and error thing. I had no idea, though, that Bernina had a specialized needle. Doubly glad now that I never bought one.

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Is news to me. The Berninas we had inflicted on us at Uni, and at college before that, all took bog-standard 15x1 needles. Most were older models. The couple of newer ones still took the same needle, but were finicky about bobbins.

I personally wouldn't buy a Bernina, but that's simply because I think they're vastly over-rated and overpriced. Others, of course, will now shoot me down in flames.

Excellent news! The number that it said in the manual was different to the one on my needle packet, so it made my worry.

Sarah

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Ooh. Worth knowing about. Cheers!

Sarah

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I agree with them being pricey. I was taught on one at school and the familiarity with it made working one much quicker with a lower stress levels than working on my Mum's Singer, especially with maching embroidery.

Sarah

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How funny - they have the opposite effect on me, probably due to their finickyness. But then I grew up with a singer treadle - can even do free-motion embroidery on one if push comes to shove (although these days I generally only do that for a bet! LOL!)

Hi, we have a New Home model 702.. Looks to be a 6o's model. There are two rows of stitches. We have figured out how to switch between stitches in one row, but cannot figure out how to switch to the second row.

Anyone have an old New Home and know how to get to the "Super Automatic" stitches?

Thanks Sandy

I don't know anything about that machine, but here are 2 sites that carry old sewing manuals.

you don't already have the manual, maybe this will help Daisy

I had an old New Home with "Super Automatic" stitches. I seem to recall that you pressed in the selection knob to get those stitches.

Iris