Originally Posted by writerwomen

Restoring machines has put us in the market for several vacuums after I almost ruined my household one by getting a needle wedged in the hose sideways and an enormous dog hair jam. Thankfully my husband had a better idea to my jamming a roll of wire through the hose. He took it to the self car wash and blasted it- out shot glob after glob of hair.
We use a small hand vac that has a narrow tip on it to clean around and even in some areas of cases and machines. for the floor we keep a bagless,hoseless, brushless mini stick vac so that threads, needles etc don't ruin it. The cost of a small vac for the sewing area is well worth the cost of ruining your more expensive one and or dragging pins and needles through the house where somoeone gets hurt.