I go to Curves 'as much as I can' and I let all my Curvets know that I was teaching Quilting and we were blessed over and over. We receved two machines and plenty of fabric. They were so glad to donate them. Now I gather with 10-14 quilters over 60yrs. young once a week and we donate baby quilts to Loma Linda Hospital. The smallest quilt was 7'x7' sq., and we had fun doing it. So with that, each one of the girls will donate a quilt to a baby.
I also go to thrift stores and one was given to me. Finaly yard sales, a friend told me she saw a machine and they wanted $10-15 dollers. We went to see it and I said the machine was for my 5 year old daughter, th man did not belive me and charged me $10. So he asked my lil one who the machie was for? Well lets say he gave me $5 back.
Good luck let me know.
Oh!!! You can ask famiy and friends if they have a machine they are not using.