Originally Posted by ragqueen03
my mil has a treadle climax machine. she uses it as decoration. i love it!!! she told me when she passes on i can have her longaberger basket collection - duh i want that machine. seriously i hope she is with us for a very long time. this is the first time i ever saw another onee
Just have to say: your mom can't read your mind, so unless you know she's promised the machine to someone else, you should be sure she knows you love it.
After my father died and my mom moved I found that she had "downsized" and got rid of some items I loved and carefully kept some from my childhood for me that I didn't have any emotional connection to at all. I had only myself to blame, because she'd asked me if there was anything I wanted. I was too busy with little ones at the time to even think what there might have been until it was too late. She gave her old Kenmore in a great little parlor cabinet to my SIL, who later divorced my brother but kept that machine (although she does not sew!). Ouch!
Congrats on rescuing this nifty old machine.