Tell me a particular sewing machine is crap, and I probably won't believe you. Show me why it's crap, and I might. It was like that with my Singer 328k, the model I learned to sew on. "It's noisy", they whined. "It's not as good as the <insert random Singer model number here>" they went on. Oh... bugger off. But of course, we know it's a fabulous workhorse, and just seems to do everything asked of it. It's all metal and probably one of the last of the good Singers (though I'll be extolling the vitues of the 348k in the coming weeks.)
But that's not what I want to talk about. I want to talk about the real underdogs, specifically the 285k. It got rotten reviews back in the early 60s; Noisy and vibrates when run fast (who the hell runs a machine fast? - what's the rush?) So of course I just had to have one. Five an a half quid later, and one is on the way. Watch this space...
Update: Horribly let-down by the vendor of said 285k on Ebay, so I it'll be a while before I get to blog about one of these little fellows. Gutted :-(
