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10-15-2011, 12:56 PM

#11

Suzi

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Location: Pennsylvania

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Originally Posted by ptquilts

Make that all-fabric bleach - takes out the grunginess of age.

Age is grungy?? :mrgreen:

10-15-2011, 12:57 PM

#12

leiladylei54

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Location: Honolulu, Hawaii

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Wow, what a great find!!!

10-15-2011, 01:12 PM

#13

ann clare

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Location: Navan. Co. Meath. Ireland

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Love them

10-15-2011, 01:14 PM

#14

cyd

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Join Date: Jan 2010

Location: southern IL

Posts: 137

They are beautiful-remind me of the 30's fabrics.

10-15-2011, 01:22 PM

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Barb44

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Location: South Dakota

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Tell us about your sewing machine.

10-15-2011, 01:23 PM

#16

MrsBoats

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Join Date: May 2011

Location: Western Tidewater, VA

Posts: 463

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deborahlees

Am I understanding you correctly...you purchased a sewing machine at your Habitate ReStore ?????

Yes, several now. I check on a regular basis to see what they've got. I pick them up for my osmg, who refurbs then sells them. I've gotten a Singer 457 (that was the one I was buying), a 237, a couple 15 clones, a Nelco, and at least one more I'm not remembering the details of.

Right now they've got a Walmart Brother and a 7-drawer Sphinx (that's missing a slide plate and the shuttle). And a really cool art deco-ish sewing table that I keep telling myself I don't need. :)

Check yours out! We have two other thrift shops in my little town, and the ReStore is by far the best for sewing machines.

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Originally Posted by Barb44

Tell us about your sewing machine.

It's a Singer 457, but not actually for me. Our ReStore tests electrical things to make sure they work, and says this motor does. Otherwise, everything else turns easily. It'll go to my osmg, in trade for the work he's doing on my Necchi BU Nova.

10-15-2011, 01:25 PM

#17

Deborahlees

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Join Date: Mar 2011

Location: Wine Country-Southern California

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Barb44

Tell us about your sewing machine.

Yes, yes....what did you get at the Re-Store....

10-15-2011, 01:55 PM

#18

Willa

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Join Date: Oct 2010

Posts: 1,341

I soaked some of my grandma's in Oxy clean. I just let them set in a tub with that and water and would gently agitate them every so often by hand.Hung up to dry then ironed. I let soak all day just to be sure.