my latest acquisition

[flummoxicated]

I have started collecting sewing machines. I don't know how it happened...really. I have my grandmother's Singer in a cabinet (it really needs a tune-up), a Singer 301, a Genie (looks like Austin Powers' sewing machine!) and I have been looking for a Singer 500 since I first saw one. I mean, what's not to love about a machine that has been nicknamed "the Rocketeer"? Every time I drive by a yard sale I look for one of these. Usually if I see a machine it's some crummy Montgomery Wards model from the 70s. But Saturday I saw it: a Rocketeer in a cabinet. Just sitting there, kind of off to the side away from all the other stuff for sale. Fortunately when I exclaimed "They have a Rocketeer for sale!" my spouse A) knew what I was talking about, because I had showed him pictures of one and he was nice enough to look at them and B) turned the car around without me having to ask. It was marked $25, I got it for $20. It sounds a little rough but I'm actually getting pretty good at poking around under the hood, as it were. I'll take a picture in the morning, right now it's a bit too dark to take a good photo; the cabinet become a prime cat hangout.

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[tudorlady.livejournal.com]

I have a present for you. The monogramming attachment for your machine. In the original box. I found it about a month ago at a thrift store and just couldn't let it sit there because SURELY I would know someone who would squee over it like they were getting a pony. Message me with your mailing address, please =)

The first person who taught me hands-on construction (in the 70s) had a 500 - I believe it had been a high school graduation gift to her. We worked it mercilessly in a freelance costume shop, it never so much as coughed. She had it cleaned and tuned regularly, and I believe that's what kept it going. I've got the feeling she still has it ;)

Anyhow...

[flummoxicated.livejournal.com]

Muchas gracias! I sent you a LJ message, let me know if it doesn't show up.