[Grow Your Own Clothes] had finally found their ideal sewing machine for doing zig-zag stitches (/\/\/\) and converting to a treadle drive (mechanically foot-fed) — a Singer 411G. This is a well ...

Whether you have inherited an old sewing machine or picked one up at the local thrift shop, it's totally normal to be curious ...

Author Martha Stewart writes in our 101 Objects Special Issue: Isaac Merritt Singer's sewing machine was a vast improvement upon earlier versions, capable of 900 stitches a minute -at a time when ...

What I really need is an industrial sewing machine. Not to replace the Singer at all ... anywhere from a handful to hundreds of different stitches, both functional and decorative.