My friend needed a sewing machine. My husband found this machine in the dumpster one night.
He accidentally broke the thread spool holder as he took it out of the cart. I glued it together. Even if it doesn’t hold, a free standing thread holder will work well too.
It came with a sewing machine manual and all the accessories even a dust cover but no foot control. It was easy to find a foot control.
The machine works well but is not as quiet as most new machines. It is easy to operate and even has a built in needle threader which is good but you have to make sure that your needle in the highest position, which is a rule for threading a sewing machine anyway.
The tension is good. It even worked through thick layers of fabric.The one step buttonhole foot worked well when I tested it but when I tried to make buttonholes on the bag, I just couldn’t get it to do a good job when I tried to sew them on the bag. I made buttonholes using big and small zig zag stitches. I had to stitch on the buttons by hand so I couldn’t test the foot to sew on buttons.
I also did not try doing free motion stitching.
After testing all the stitches, I used the scrap of fabric to make a bag for the accessories.