What kind of crack are y'all selling?
Seriously. I joined because this looked like a place with good information on vintage sewing machines. It's taken exactly 3.5 days and I'm already looking for a project machine. I swear if I get divorced because I start hoarding machines, it's all y'alls fault. https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images...es/biggrin.png
Anyway, I'm Chris. I live on a boat. I need to sew canvas. That's kinda how I ended up here. I'm cheap and I didn't want to pay $800 for a straight stitch Sailrite machine "sew" I bought a singer 66. A few youtube rebuild/refurb videos later, and now I want to buy three more to rebuild. And maybe I'll make a quilt this winter alongside my knitting! Thanks for having me. |
So funny, those old Singers are workhorses for sure. Welcome to the board.
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Welcome from Texas. Sounds like you are on the road to being additive! We have a lot of sewing machine
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Originally Posted by osewme
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Welcome from Texas. Sounds like you are on the road to being additive! We have a lot of sewing machine
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Welcome from Ontario, Canada. While I sympathize with your need to acquire vintage Singers, remember you live on a boat and these machine are heavy.
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Originally Posted by Tartan
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remember you live on a boat and these machine are heavy.
But we do keep a small storage unit for seasonal clothes storage, tools, and furniture from the sticks & bricks that we're not ready to part with yet. |
Welcome from Michigan!:)
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Welcome welcome welcome from the other far corner of the US (lol) ...You have made me laugh this morning. A boat ehh? That actually sounds cool.
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Welcome aboard -- you are indeed now one of us, one of us!
I was only semi-joking the other day that a nice old machine I had might end up as a boat anchor... they do have many uses. Waving from the Seattle area, sail on sailor :) |
Originally Posted by eparys
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A boat ehh? That actually sounds cool.
Yes. We sold the sticks & bricks in March of 2016 and "temporarily" moved into our RV so that we wouldn't be buying and selling at the same time. That temporary RV stay turned into 2.5 years. We moved the RV down to the coast and settled into water life working our way through a ski boat, a 27 foot sail boat, a 31 foot cabin cruiser, and now we live on a 40 foot motor yacht. We keep talking about moving back to land, but then we realize we have the cheapest water front property in the state and decide to stay! It's a lot of fun.
Originally Posted by Iceblossom
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I was only semi-joking the other day that a nice old machine I had might end up as a boat anchor... they do have many uses.
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