Originally Posted by
Cheshirepat
Looks like you need to pick up another one then! ;-) I'm afraid to even look at more machines for fear I will succumb to the need to bring it home and clean it! How rare is a white featherweight? I've never seen one.
I saw one at Quilt Festival and instantly wanted one. If you aren't worried about how much you pay, they are fairly easy to find but often pricey. I, on the other hand, am a bit cheap and didn't want to spend $700 on one. I looked for a little over a year on Estatesales.net to find one. I found one in the case at a sale less than 10 miles from my house. I showed up at dark thirty for the sale and was glad I did. The machine I bought was only $50 in the case. It wasn't working but I did get to test it to see that the motor would run so I figured it was probably something not too complicated like cleaning/oiling. It turned out it was clean as anything and just needed a good oiling to get it moving. I didn't even have to adjust anything. It sews like a dream. I made my husband a quilt on it last Christmas.