https://oliverands.com/community/members/emily-p/activity Activity feed for Emily P. Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:10:07 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 2ddd4fb57c49011fb0373c6d6752116c https://oliverands.com/community/groups/sewing-for-yourself/forum/topic/old-sewing-machine-has-broken#post-77092 Wed, 05 May 2021 21:50:18 -0400 I only use old sewing machines now. I have about a dozen Necchi sewing machines, all older models made in Italy – not the newer ones made in Asia. The free arm Supernova models are fabulous for clothing, but even the more readily available straight stitch BF or zigzag BU are fabulous. A cheap old Singer is better than any new machine. I have a 99…[Read more]

]]> 0 2c4a48524d09b4572eb044b2f7cf94e7 https://oliverands.com/community/activity/p/175714 Wed, 05 May 2021 21:44:26 -0400 0 633e0d472ce8b94b0f4e0ffe8d57548a https://oliverands.com/community/forums/topic/sewing-machine/page/2/#post-67909 Thu, 29 Nov 2018 05:44:38 -0500 I have made dozens of clothing items for my kids, including hats, bags, backpack, stuffies, etc. Also probably more than 100 costume pieces for my kids’ plays, all on my Janome mechanical Sewist. Increasingly, I found that the Janome was not up to the more rugged projects, such as the back pack and I turned to my Singer 301 for that. Suddenly,…[Read more]

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