Hi Jim and family and welcome to the 'board. You will love it here, stop by often.

Welcome Jim from Missouri Star Quilt Company in Hamilton, Missouri. If you need any help please call us!

Welcome!! We lived in Peteluma in the '70s. It was a great little town and we loved the weather.

Sounds like you have a great grouping of machines -- it is great that your kids join you sewing.

Thanks you all. I gave the Singer to a friend at work who makes costumes for various events and I picked up a project Singer 99K with a hand crank. It'll be easier to control for us newbies once I get it cleaned up, repaired, and dialed in. There is a great quilt store in Petaluma and I picked up Marianne Fons and Liz Porter's book, "Quilters Complete Guide" to get the family started. I was setting up the Old White Rotary for my daughter last night and low and behold, when I lifted the machine to check the bobbin, the original green box of attachments appeared. It must have been hiding off to the side. Talk about a pleasant surprise...[ATTACH=CONFIG]385582[/ATTACH]

We have been here for 10 years. It is a nice place. We may move eventually to a bigger place with a bit of land, but it'll be in Petaluma. My wife is involved in the art community here. She is a painter. She paints and paints and paints. Did I mention that she paints?