Introducing.....

My "new" Singer.

A 1950s Singer 301. 

I inhereted this machine from Mr. Chaos' Great-Grandma.  She had been sitting in my garage collecting dust until a friend redid the cabinet she came with.

When I got the cabinet back, I took the machine into the shop to be oiled and cleaned up a bit.  It was pretty funny when I picked her up, the guy at the sewing shop rattled on and on about how great the machine was, and that I was NEVER to sell it, "it has value".  I guess it will be running for my kids' kids.

Anyway, I'm starting to sew with her.  Learning the quirks of a "new" machine is alway fun.