![]() ![]() Which is funny, because when I purchased my drop-in bobbin Singer Spartan more than a year ago, it came with a class 15 instead of a class 66! I think a lot of people can't tell the difference and wonder why their stitching looks off. The only flaw, if you can consider it a flaw, is that it came loaded with a class 66 bobbin instead of a class 15. (My Spartan dated from the early 60s, btw my 15-91 from 1952.) Despite dating back to 1949 (March 4 to be exact), the wire and plugs are all new and clean, as is the bobbin winding tire and the belt. ![]() To my delight, this machine is in excellent shape, clearly having been spruced up of late. It did leave me feeling a little guilty about carbon footprints but at least the machine itself is second-hand and the packaging went to the recycling bin in our apartment building. ![]() The box I received was one of the most meticulous packing jobs I've seen and I've seen many.įriends, there was enough tape, plastic wrap, styrofoam and cardboard in this package to mount an entire junior high school class science fair. The beauty of a transaction like the Spartan sale is that I didn't have to box anything - Celebrity X carried the Spartan off in a doubled Whole Foods shopping bag. The timing couldn't have been better as I knew my 15-90 was already out for delivery. I am sworn to secrecy about the purchaser of this machine as she is a well-known celebrity in certain parts of the world or so she claims and has escaped to Brooklyn to lead a normal life or as normal a life as one can lead in Brooklyn. Singer himself, I was able both to sell my Singer Spartan (my seventh sewing machine sale since I started decluttering earlier this month) and hours later to receive my Singer 15-90, courtesy of UPS.Ĭlose readers will remember my intention of selling my beloved 3/4 Spartan (also known as the 192K) last week, when I decided that, cute and reliable as she was, I wanted something stronger, and a machine I could put in my treadle table in place of my 1920 Singer 66 - a fantastic machine but one that lacks the ability to reverse mid-stitch and a less-than-ideal stitch length knob (you turn it like a screw, which means no way to identify stitch length without actually stitching). Friends, Monday was a very exciting day here at MPB headquarters. ![]()
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