supervisors.....Always we got supervisors..

Can't seem to avoid supervisors....even at home. Here for example, is Alice, who is our QA manager here at Flamingo Sewing, hard at work, supervising the re-assembly of this 221.

Singer never made any red 221's (or green or blue or yellow ones). So any red ones you see, have been repainted. Singer tended to be stodgy in their color choices. The only color options they offered were the traditional black, tan and mint green. You had to know, that that just wouldn't  last....Someone was going to custom paint one red and show it to their friends.........
You can buy them online now, in just about any color you you can imagine. If you are willing to fork over a lot of money, and wait six months, you can get them painted in whatever color you personally prefer. You can even get ones with hand painted flowers on them. What a change!
This one is for sale, and I wouldn't mind if the buyer traded in a black one. I have sone ideas involving yellow paint and black decals.....

Playing with paint: the tritone clone

Playing with paint: The Tritone clone. I learned to drive during the muscle car era, and fell in love with hot rods and wild paint jobs early. So, when I came into this Kenmore "high performance", 1.2 amp, and decided to myself an upholstery sewer, it just had to be a Hot Rod paint job....I really couldn't help myself you see, the motor was a sickly green, and the clone was a blaaah blue.......