Well yesterday I mailed off PIF gifts to Lissa and Tracy hope you like them...there is still a free item for someone else should they wish too join the PIF-I have not really campaigned for a third person as I send a RAK(randon act of kindness) to an unsuspecting person each month,so I figured that works too...
Well today I actually felt quite alive when I woke up and I had some energy so I went too the local thrift store ,picked up some nice pieces of cotton-you can relate can't you I just had too have them I could not leave them there for someone else.... I will use somewhere I'm sure LOL
I then was browsing the bags as the special this week was bags-belts-hats $1.00 woohoo I got this so not me bag but ahh it was only $1....
And then I turned around and saw this sewing machine cover in good condition.thought too self well ya just never know when you might have too travel with your machine so I walks over to look closer at it......oops ok it had a sewing machine in it...the masking tape on the top said..
"BROTHER SEWING MACHINE-NEEDS EXPERIENCED BOBBIN-MOTOR FIXING"....ahh I said to myself I won't open it and look , I'll just buy it 'cause the cover would be handy and it was only $10.00 .....
I get home cart the machine upstairs and open the cover.....well my goodness it has another little handy cover hmmm.....well there is the bobbin housing all in bits and the throat plate off....it still has the owners manual and all the feet it came with in thier little compartment,ok this don't look too bad..SO I look at the stitches arghhh pooey it don't have blanket stitch grrr ...One day I'll find me a machine that has balnket stitch.No I'm not going out and buying a new one I have perfectly good machine here just no blanket stitch....
that brown cover on the machine snaps on to the back and slides into 2 little slots on the front -handy jigger............
hard cover case can be seen in the background there
Oh and it still had the protcetive plastic strip across the stitch display panel-go figure
I amused myself for ½hour and next thing yah know the machine is humming away nicely yeehaah.....and my universal walking foot fits on it perfect-I will use this machine to practice and play with machine quilting ........
Cheers Vickie
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11 comments:
Jeepers brilliant buying their Vickie well done.........
What a bargain girl...well done. Hugs Khris
bargain!!! so nothing is wrong with the machine then?? I need to get my featherweight sorted so I have a machine to travel with :O)
take care and hope your weekend is a goodie!!!
Lissapoo
Well done Vickie; what a good buy. Enjoy your new toy!! Nessie
Great buy Vickie!! Now you can sew twice as much LOL
Hey Vicki,
Thanks for visiting my sight and leaving your nice comments.
This is the first time I've been to your site but I have somewhere that I have to go today but will be back to read more and will comment again then.
I appreciate every comment that I get and am so happy that you stopped by. Hope you liked what you saw and will return soon.
Blessings,
Dianne
I enjoyed my first visit to your site.
Good score at the Thrift store... well done..... now we want to see something made in the new machine...LOL
Cath Ü
What a great, fabulous buy Vickie!! Wish I could find one like that! A machine gets so old over here and all of a sudden it is a vintage machine and they want a gazillion bucks for it!LOL
hugs Karen
Great bargains and a fun time too. Glad you're feeling better.
Great sewing machine score at the thrift shop! Someone was pretty silly to give up so quickly on their sewing machine, but you sure profited from their impatience. That brown cover is the perfect anti-kitty barrier! (If you have a cat you know what I mean.) I finally got a machine with blanket stitch, but I had to go pretty high end to find one that included that stitch. (It's a Juki, by the way, maybe they sell them in Australia.) It was my birthday present this year. Now all I have to do is practice.
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