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| GaiasRose |
Posted - May 16 2007 : 5:57:45 PM
I have a friend on Freecycle who listed a Singer serger. I didn't see the listing so he called me because he klnew that if I had seen it I would have responded.
Well, we went over to their place tonight a few miles away and holy canoli you wont believe this!
This serger is AMAZING! It works with all of its orginal pieces plus some. It is on a table and is just perfect. It is fromt he early forties and just perfect.
All for nothin'!
I will take pictures just as soon as I figure out how to fit it in my craft room....I just had to brag right away though. I am sooooo excited!!
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| Ronna |
Posted - May 16 2007 : 9:50:16 PM
Freecycle is wonderful. I'ved gotten and given some great things through it and the related lists. Craig's list can be good (as when I got the Featherweight for $100), but sporadic, and some times less than honorable people. How neat to get something you will use and love for free.
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| Marybeth |
Posted - May 16 2007 : 8:40:15 PM
Good for you Tasha and good for you Tracy. Isn't it so much fun to find a great find. Yay!! MB
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| GaiasRose |
Posted - May 16 2007 : 8:39:34 PM
Kathie,
sergers are a charm once you figure them out. I have a serger already, but I have a problem with collecting sewing machines and sergers. All told there are ten of them in my house. I do not like the serger I already have, but I cannot seem to part with it.
in my house, sewing machines are like rabbits.
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Tasha-Rose
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| BotanicalBath |
Posted - May 16 2007 : 7:46:30 PM
Wowwy that is great! And free to boot! I would be doing such a grand happy dance over that find. Ya know, since it is 40 yrs old, it has real metal gears and will run forever. I would get a tune up on it and a new blade.
Wow what a gem... I would love to have one of those or any older machine.
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| Kathie |
Posted - May 16 2007 : 6:57:38 PM
Tasha!! I am so excited for you.. but more importantly.. I'm being a bit selfish here.. I got a brand new one for Mothers day last year.. & i am scared to death of it!!
Haven't a CLUE.. how to use the dang thing!
So please!! figure yours out so you can help me with mine!!!
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| mommatracy |
Posted - May 16 2007 : 6:48:09 PM
Hello Tasha, What a wonderful find! A serger from the forties and still working. You should have bragging rights on something like that. Awesome. I am a newbie on this site but when I read of your find I just had to tell someone what I recently found in a local thrift shop here at the coast. The shop accepts donations and the proceeds go to help local folks in need. I stop in everyweek to help support their efforts and I am always finding some really great stuff. One day I spotted something pretty beneath a folded blanket and when I pulled it out it was a hand crocheted bedspread in perfect condition.Absolutely beautiful. Someone actually go rid of it, why?. It is old but perfect. I could not believe my luck. It had no price on it and when I asked what she wanted for it she said would you pay ten dollars? I would have paid 100 dollars or more. Anyway when I walked out of that store I almost cried it was so beautiful. I had been talking about attempting to make a bedspread for months and there it was. A blessing.Tk I guess as the old timers used to say, I just made a brag, Ha! Tracy from Carolina. |
| Luzy |
Posted - May 16 2007 : 6:35:02 PM
So happy for you! Don't ya just love it when you find a treasure like that, and for free?!? Congrats! Lu
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