[Grow Your Own Clothes] had finally found their ideal sewing machine for doing zig-zag stitches (/\/\/\) and converting to a treadle drive (mechanically foot-fed) — a Singer 411G. This is a well ...

Originally, his Alfa sewing machine could only do a straight stitch or a zig-zag of varying widths ... to come up with some awesome stitch patterns that were not possible on this machine before.