I wanted to share this awesome Singer 611g I bought over the weekend. The person I bought it from told me it was her great aunts. It came with everything and more! It's in fantastic shape and still works great despite possibly not being used since the 80s. I put in some sewing machine oil following the manual (it had the manual, and warrenty card still). Manual shows a grease/paste(?) as well so need to figure out what to get for those areas that use that instead of oil.
I know sewing machines need maintenance every so often, especially in this case, so I plan to take it in soon for a checkup. I hope it it'll be fine to still use until then, I've had no problems except when I decided I was probably threading it wrong and tried another interpretation of the instructions. I was right the first time 😅.
I'm still a beginner with machine sewing. My family didn't have a machine and so I'm used to handsewing everything. I had a great sewing and embroidery machine I got from my grandma when I still lived in the USA but never used it as I was worried about breaking it (also was missing the power cord). I had to sell it when I moved to Finland, this is my first machine here. I did borrow a friend's sewing machine for a bit, so I at least know a bit more of how to use one in general. All I did was replaced a zipper twice on a coat and make a double pointed needle cover so WIP socks don't fall off the needles when I'm not knitting.
My first project with it is going to be making a dust cover for it. It came with a case that's still in great shape, but I want something easier to just plop over it as I plan to keep it on the table.
Oh wow, for reference books I prefer to have them as a physical book but this is really tempting!