Thanks! btw- love your name and avatar.

Sorry i don't have one.It works doesn't it?I would think that's all that counts.Yours is just as good as all the others.

Keep in mind that pretty, pristine, old machines weren't used much. Just think of the thousands of miles of thread that have gone thru your machine!!

I would love to have a machine with history. I am so sad my Mother sold hers. It was a treadle that Daddy made into an electric. I learned to sew on it.
You know that galloping horse we all talk about, well if you do not think you little machine is pretty, just get on the horse! LOL

You are completely right! I feel better now. Thanks friends!

And here I am dying to get my treadle cabinet in shape so I can put my 66 head in it. This head is very basic but oh, she does a wicked good stitch and I can't wait to get her installed. There is a 127 Phoenix in the cabinet now, but she only has one bobbin, the long skinny vibrating shuttle type, and I like the round better that the 66 has. Ny Featherweight had been horribly abused too and then shut up in an attic for many years. She was so dirty and grimy and had old tape goo imbedded in her surface. She leaned up good but has paint chip aread on her edges but she also has a stitch that today's machines can't do any better. I use her a lot for small piecing. I honor their long service and think that their owies are badges of endurance.

One of my Mother's favorite sayings was, "Beauty fades, but ugly holds it own."

Think about it a little. Have you ever been to a reunion and was amazed at how so "many" the beauties didn't hold up very well, while the ones that may have been considered "ugly" had either improved amazingly or really hadn't changed very much at all.

I sometimes feel that way, too. Especially those that have multiple machines. I have a Brother that I bought at Costco for $150 and an old black Singer that my Mom saved and saved to buy me for Christmas when I was 18. My best friend has a very expensive Pfaff that she loves. But I am as much in love with my Brother. It has everything I wanted: needle up/down and serpentine stitch. It sews like a dream, is light weight enough to take places. If what you have works for you, that is all that matters:-)

She's beautiful and think of her long history! Boy if she could talk. :)

Indeed. So much of life is beyond what meets our eye. Tonight, my little gem stitched together pieces from my sweet neighbor, my mother, my sister, and my children. Loop by loop, our lives entwine. Living has etched its experiences in us all...