Singer Featherweight Sewing Machine for Quilting

I asked my neighbor and friend, who is a professional seamstress, what she thought of quilting with a Singer Featherweight Sewing Machine, and whether she thought I should consider buying one. She said she had a good friend down south local to her former home town who has helped her choose her sewing machines for years. She had called to ask him recently about the Featherweight. He said they were very good little machines, and for a time were the most desirable of sewing machines for quilting.

He also said that trend (using Singer Featherweights) is slowing down just little bit, but it is still a very popular choice by quilters. There are new models of sewing machines designed just for quilting that some are buying instead.

It was apparent at the gathering I attended with my neighbor that the Singer Featherweight is still a popular machine. The size makes it easy to take with you to a quilting club, or quilting guild as they are called in our town, when a hands-on training session is taking place at the meeting.

I was delighted to find a website that went into a great detail about Singer Featherweights. Here are the first few sentences and a link to the complete text:

"The Singer Featherweight portable sewing machine is a model made by that company between 1933 and 1964. The machine (model 221), adapted from an earlier portable, the Standard SewHandy (which company was bought out by Singer) weighs about 11 pounds and has been found to be an ideal machine for quilters and other sewers to take to classes or "on location." Very quiet and sturdily made with all-metal parts (mostly aluminum), the Featherweight sews only straight stitches but it sews them very well. Even the oldest machines, if they've been cared for, still sew wonderfully...." Click here to read much more.






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Though various companies make sewing machines, none is as well known for the product as the Singer Corporation. When I was growing up, my father worked for a company that merged with Singer, so the name had even more meaning for our family. Singer acquired or merged with Kearfott. My father worked most of his life, and all of my childhood years until his retirement, for Kearfott, then Singer-Kearfott, in the aeronautics department. We remember well when the name changed to Singer Kearfott.

The following print caught my eye because of the connection with Singer even though it is not written in English.