Sorry to hear things aren't going so well. Don't know how close any of these places are to you, but was trying to check your local Craig's List and this is what it gave me when I asked for 29 palms.
https://palmsprings.craigslist.org/s...lting&sort=rel
There's some free fabric scraps and a couple machine options in the "not too bad" price range
I love the old vintage machines, and turquoise is always so nice...
https://palmsprings.craigslist.org/c...131522831.html
Seattle area is largely out of new machines but a couple of guys have been refurbishing their old collections and selling them for good values around $100-200 for a machine that's been cleaned, oiled and checked. You might also try contacting sewing machine dealers/repair shops and asking about their trade ins, again basing it on my area but those start around 150-300 and go up rapidly from there. Around here, the going rate pre-Covid for a working condition used machine was $20-40 whether it was at a thrift shop or garage sale, that has gone up to $100 for anything.