Members particle Posted February 25, 2013 Members Report Posted February 25, 2013 My wife has started sewing for hire from home for a lady that makes t-shirt quilts, and already has a pretty nice bottom-feed machine. However, it needed a tune-up so we took it to the shop. While it's there, she's borrowed her sister's Pfaff 6120 and fell in love with it. Apparently it has a better feeding system (IDT Walking Foot?) and works much better for the type of sewing she's doing. With our current machine, apparently it doesn't feed smoothly (bottom feed only) because the t-shirt material and the backing (cotton sheets) doesn't feed the same so it tends to bunch up a bit if she's not careful. Does anyone out there have one of these they'd like to sell? Or something of similar quality and performance? It needs to be portable, so I'm not really interested in a table-mounted machine. She has to be able to carry it since she's not always sewing in the same place - sometimes she sews at home, but usually she sews at her parents house since they don't have a cat..... Quote Eric Adamswww.adamsleatherworks.com | Facebook | YouTube | Instagram
Moderator Wizcrafts Posted February 25, 2013 Moderator Report Posted February 25, 2013 That Pfaff is a bottom only, drop feed home sewing machine. Quote Posted IMHO, by Wiz My current crop of sewing machines: Cowboy CB4500, Singer 107w3, Singer 139w109, Singer 168G101, Singer 29k71, Singer 31-15, Singer 111w103, Singer 211G156, Adler 30-7 on power stand, Techsew 2700, Fortuna power skiver and a Pfaff 4 thread 2 needle serger.
Members particle Posted February 25, 2013 Author Members Report Posted February 25, 2013 I believe this is a newer model, but it shows what I believe the Pfaff that she's been using has for a feeding system. It's definitely a step above the feeding system on her Riccar. Quote Eric Adamswww.adamsleatherworks.com | Facebook | YouTube | Instagram
Members rosiart Posted February 25, 2013 Members Report Posted February 25, 2013 (edited) Particle, most of the higher end Pfaff home machines had the IDT feed system, so your wife has plenty of models to choose from. It works very well for helping prevent creeping of the different layers of fabric. It certainly works much better than any walking foot attachment. Edited February 25, 2013 by rosiart Quote Rosemary RosiArt's Blog
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