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Singer Merritt 157 Panoramic Sewing Machine Manual

kinney 5 April 2026 No Comments

Just posting this as I spent about 2 hours trying to identify the sewing machine I have access to and trying to find the manual

The below link is a PDF for the sewing machine Singer Merritt 157 Panoramic Sewing Machine. The one I’m using is pink and has the text Panoramic Made in Italy on it and nothing else. There are similar models with the Singer logo on.

The manual images were done by Reddit user ScareMeSometimes so full credit to them for this document. The images were originally saved as JPEG images on imgur – I wanted them in a single document so have created this PDF.

Singer Merritt 157 Panoramic Sewing Machine Manual Download

Machine looks like this -:

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kinney 13 December 2025 No Comments

Recently I’ve been trying to brain storm things I might actually be able to make with the materials, tools and skills I have already -:

Robot WALL-E
Old school large format camera
Team Zissou / The Life Aquatic uniform (actually started this)

Now just to get over the hump and stop being a chronic never-finisher.

“The Japanese idiom, mikka bouzo, translates literally as: ‘three-day monk’. It is used in reference to a person who easily gives up after starting something new.” Uh oh.

Looking around online, it’s given me more fuel for the theory I’m probably ADHD-inattentive.

Quentin Crisp

“All the golden societies of the past to which historians point and turn their wistful smiles have had what patience-players would call a discard pile. They operated on two levels with a slave class who worked, ate, slept, and died and a leisured class who reclined on one elbow and spoke. Naturally it is from this latter group that we learn what life at that time was like. It often makes charming reading but we can hardly take it to be the whole truth.”

Quentin Crisp

The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face”

Quentin Crisp

“Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.”

Quentin Crisp

“There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.”

Hunter S Thompson

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”

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Singer Merritt 157 Panoramic Sewing Machine Manual

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