IDeATe Sewing Machine Guide

IDeATe has several types of sewing machines available from the Lending Desk or in the Sewing Lab. This may include:

• Singer 44S Heavy Duty (our focus)

• Janome HD-3000

• Janome Mod-19

• Brother XL2600i

The Sewing Lab also has a Juki professional machine we will not be using (unless you previously qualified in another class).

IDeATe Resources Sewing Machine Guide (currently not up to date, only addresses Brother XL2600i.

This page still under development.

Singer 44S Heavy Duty Sewing Machine

• Singer 44S home page. Includes eleven tutorial videos, several of which are inserted below.

• Instruction Manual (via Singer)

• Instruction Manual (via Google Drive)

SINGER® CLASSIC™ 44S Sewing Machine - Your Machine (5 minutes, part 1 of class)

SINGER® CLASSIC™ 44S Sewing Machine - Threading (9 minutes, part 2 of class)

SINGER® CLASSIC™ 44S Sewing Machine - Sewing Seams (3 minutes, part 3 of class)

SINGER® CLASSIC™ 44S Sewing Machine Owners Class (47 minutes, all parts)

Resources from Other Courses

Credit and thanks for the following are due to other IDeATe instructors for putting together these useful reference guides. A special thanks goes to Natalya Pinchuk and Olivia Robinson.

• Soft Fabrication Spring 2024 has a number of useful references and video on basic hand and machine sewing. (backup version: Fall 2022)

• Inflatables Spring 2023 Resources has links to many tutorials and references.