Compact sewing machine suggestion

Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply · 2005-02-01T09:44:01+00:00

I am trying to figure out what kind of compact-sized sewing machine to send my daughter at college and thought I would take suggestions here. I doubt she is going to be doing a lot of sewing over there, but she does split seams, rip pockets, and tear out hems a lot, and she might sew a skirt or two if she really got desperate. The following issues are pertinent:* I am a single parent (she is paying for her own college education herself, BTW), and the most I have ever spent on a sewing machine for myself was about $300, so please don't suggest a $1000 machine, because I'll never be able to afford it.* She was not interested in taking my Featherweight, which I would have been willing to give up for her to take. (I don't think I can afford to buy one just for her on my budget.)* She also was not interested in taking her own sewing machine. I am not sure if it's because it is too big, because she never really liked it after we got it (although she liked it perfectly well before we got it), because there's something wrong with it that she doesn't want to tell me about, or because she is not happy that I didn't pass my lovely 70s or 80s era New Home (which I am *VERY* emotionally attached to) down to her once I got my Singer 500A -- or maybe it's a combination of all of the above.* I live in California. She is in South Carolina. The postal charges to there are pretty steep from what I have mailed her, so I don't want to have to mail anything terribly heavy to her.* It's got to be something noticeably smaller than a full-sized machine, because she's living in a dorm room and doesn't have a lot of space.* We have a Singer 99 here, but I suspect it's too heavy to ship (see distance and shipping cost comments below).* Ditto for a Singer 66 that my son never converted to a handcrank model and I might be able to talk him out of, but I think that might be a full-sized machine anyway.* I also have a Singer 301, but not only am I moderately attached to it, but I think it's...

Feb 01, 2005 Last reply: 21 years ago 84 Replies

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small change 21 years ago

Those tiny tailor things? bwahahahaha, those things are useless peices of junk. I'm MM hasn't brought that up as an option because she already knows better.

Penny S

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hfw 21 years ago

Well, I can now report that it's a keeper. Used it through my 24-hour oncall shift at the hospital and it's great. I've got very limited space there, room for a bed and a desk and not much else, and there's a computer on the desk already--but the little blue guy (gotta find a name for it) fit just fine and worked very well. It does seem very nicely made.

--Heidi

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"Mel>> Oops. Forgot to say that it's regularly $99 at Sears, and often on sale,

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CySew 21 years ago

I do not see a photo of the machine on the site, did I miss something? Emily

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Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply 21 years ago

Blueboy, after the famous painting?

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Maureen Wozniak 21 years ago

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