Originally Posted by
melinda1962
Thank yall for the compliments on Miriam, the Yellow Brother. She cleaned up pretty, and makes a wonderful stitch. She is smooth and you can hardly hear her run. I am glad Miriam, the lady, posted pics of it when she unloaded her van, and was good enough to sell it to me. She packed it in bubble wrap, in a box, then in another box with styrofoam and cardboard spacers. It shipped great. Kudos to her for that.
Melinda that machine cleaned up very nice. You probably should have named it Martha, after my sister, she is a harder worker... My sister and I had a pretty good time down at the FedEx place. The guy at the counter was bored and watched the show. We got the boxes from FedEx - the first box fit pretty nice over the bubble wrapped machine and the detached motor. We filled in with styrofoam and crossed our fingers that it wouldn't shift too much. Then we put the smaller box in the big box. We had too much room and not enough styrofoam. But we had the box the foam came in left over so we padded it out with that. Between foam every where, boxes everywhere and the two of us trying to maneuver a heavy machine I think we made that guys day. BTW - there is still foam in my car - the box lid came open when we were driving with the windows down... Then it came time to mail it. The computer did not like Melinda's address but it did give us a phone number for her so we called and got some grouchy old man who didn't know much about sewing machines. So the machine got sent to that address because the other one wasn't on the computer. They are real funny about getting the address that is on the computer. Then when she did get the box it went to the address she was wanting anyway. Go figure. Confused? Me too.