I shop the local thrift store at least once a week. Sometimes I find cloth or a sewing machine. Most of the time I strike out.
I was lucky this week to find an Elna Super in very good shape and some blue cloth perfect for a shirt.
This is my first Elna. I am surprised how smooth and quiet it runs. I did have to download a manual to see how the buttonhole mechanism works. It has a few built -in stitches and also takes cams, which there was one in the machine.
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Case looks like a typewriter |
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Nice looking free-arm machine |
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Open flap to access decorative stitches and cam shaft |
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Half of the case becomes a table |
I made my "go to" shirt pattern, the simplicity 8427 which I wore to a quilt show in Reno.
Thanks for stopping.