Mine was willed to me by my Great Aunt. I'm not sure where she got it, my mom and I guess it originally belonged to my Great-Aunt's Aunt. She passed away in 2002 and last summer I was toying with selling it and then got back into sewing with my other machine, then picked up quilting and found this board which opened my eyes to how useful and wonderful my little FW is. I pulled it out of the box and used it for the first time recently and I love it. I wouldn't trade it for anything now.