[Nfb-krafters-korner] Sewing Machine Guard

[Blindhands at aol.com]

I have several sewing machines that I use.  Like you say I do not use  any 
type of finger guard.  I feel the fabric and the foot and I have made  up a 
seam guard.
 
I wonder if they still make a Bernina like what you have.  I do have a  
Bernina, a few Elnas, a Singer, a Feather weight Singer and my Mom is holding 
on  to the old Singer treddle machine that I learned on.
 
I have one Singer machine that I recently purchased that I got for making  
buttonholes on.  Well I have sewn overalls and then put the buttonholes on  
the overalls.  It has this special foot that you drop the button into and  
fslide it so the button is tight and then you set the machine on buttonhole  
which I have marked in order to know where to turn the knobs to and push the 
 footpeddle and walla it makes a perfect buttonhole that fits that  
button!!!  I paid $118 which included shipping for this baby and it was  well worth 
it.
 
I use to have a Futura Singer machine when my kids were growing up and it  
had this feature for buttonholes on.  The Futura died a while back so I did  
a search for buttonhole foot or something like that and came up with this 
newer  model machine.  It has built in stitches, but it is not computerized 
and  that is perfectly OK with me.
 
I have my Bernina that is computerized, but when I went to buy it I did not 
 get one that had a bunch of stitches as I would never remember what they 
were  and I would need help in finding them on the screen.  My Bernina has  
buttons and I have a list of what is what.
 
Joyce