This is my old Bernina 121. She used to be my grandmothers, though she didn't really sewing. She did mend, knit and I remember sewing with her on a hand-crank machine. My aunt and uncle found this machine at a flea market and bought it for her.
The 121 is a single hole free-arm machine with solid metal construction. You can drop the feed dogs. And the "gas" pedal is a knee pedal.
I love taking that machine to classes and decided to sew a nice cover for her. I also like to sew outside on the front porch area, watching the neighborhood....
The 121 wasn't made in big numbers because a very short time after the 125 came out, one of the first free-arm zick-zack machine. But for patchwork this single-hole machine is great.
Here the cover placed over the machine. I didn't use batting, but the stuff intended to give bags more stability. I like that it has more body that way. Especially good for the thread "basket". A early version with batting was to flimsy to stay open and make it possible to deposit cut-off threads during sewing.
Isn't this a great California Spring sewing area?
No comments:
Post a Comment