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Doing the happy happy happy dance for you!!! Enjoy!!!

GOOD FOR YOU !!! We have a saying ...."what goes around, comes around".....which applies to both good and bad - you were obviously being "repaid" for goodness !!!! Hope you have a wonderful time with your new machine !!!!

I agree you were meant to get the machine! Sounds like God was blessing you for your charity to others and giving your quilts!

How wonderful for you. Enjoy your new "gift". Wishing you many happy embroidery projects.

Good for you to get the bargain machine. Hope you are feeling better. Enjoy your new machine.

That is so exciting ... enjoy your wonderful new machine!

That is a happy Karma moment for you. Glad you're feeling better, and just think of all the beautiful items you can now make with it. Enjoy it!

That is wonderful! Enjoy that new machine!

Congrats to you on your good luck!! What a way to start the new year!!

Congratulations. When things like that work out, I think you should go for it. Sometimes He works through the circumstances.

Wonderful news. I do a lot of charity work in our guild and it is so neat when something like this happens to us. We get tickled pink. Have fun and enjoy.

I am so happy for you. You are blessed for all the good you do. I love hearing wonderful stories like this. My heart is warmed! Thank you for sharing your story and good fortune. May it continue!

Congratulations! Enjoy it!!!

Too bad about the divorce, but at least the sewing machine has a happy ending! I'm glad it's with you now-- someone who will love and appreciate it.

they say "what goes around, comes around"......a higher power was thanking you for your good deeds. God bless you with many happy and healthy years!

Good for you. ENJOY! It was meant to be..

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Originally Posted by Debbie C (Post 5792035)

they say "what goes around, comes around"......a higher power was thanking you for your good deeds. God bless you with many happy and healthy years!

I agree...it was meant to be so you can continue to share your work with others.

Great to hear that you got the machine as you make so many charity quilts. Happy quilting.

Your post made me smile. :)
Some days it seems everything just works out right.
Enjoy your new machine!

Your story was so nice to read. You surely did get a good bargin. I am happy for you. Your talk about the charity quilts was touching. I will send you a pm now. So check your messages.

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Originally Posted by justflyingin (Post 5788170)

I've been wanting a Janome Horizon12000 since I heard about them since I've been exposed to machine embroidery (due to this forum) and really wanted a larger hoop than the 5x7 I had! (seriously!) I'd started to save for the machine--here in Poland they cost new about 17,000 zl which is between 5-6K dollars. This seems to be a lot less than in the states.

Last week, on Saturday (the 5th) when I was waiting for a lady at the dentist's office (I had been her transportation), I checked an on line auction here in Poland which is more or less like Ebay, but not. There was one advertised for what made me blink...

When I saw this ad, it said, "brand new Horizon 12000" still with the plastic on it for just over 3K (I'm changing the money back into dollars). It was a Buy it Now. I called in the afternoon, checking several times to see if it was sold yet, but the seller was a new seller with "0" reputation--and usually you don't buy something so expensive without seeing it from a new seller. He just happened to live in our town (Warsaw), and not 200 miles away, which is what seems like usually happens. Apparently the seller put the ad up and then went away for the holidays and just got back on Saturday--the same day I saw the ad. I called on Saturday afternoon and made contact. I asked if I could see the machine and asked for a history of it. I had kind of wondered if it was stolen since there is a dearth of these machines for sale, second hand.

However, the seller told me he was selling it for a friend of his who had bought it for his wife who had filed for a divorce--without ever even using the machine!!!! (Can you even imagine?)

So they were selling this brand new machine (apparently purchased originally in Sweden), for 60% of the new price in Poland, but it is much less than people in the states are having to pay.

I made an appointment for Sunday afternoon and we went and saw it, bought it and took it home. While we were there, he answered the phone from two other interested buyers. In a way I felt like I stole it, but in a way, I felt like it was a gift and was meant for me.

All of the details just worked out...like my checking the auction (which I wouldn't have if I hadn't taken that lady to the dentist), and being able to come up with the money the next day and making contact with the seller because my husband told me, "Go CALL HIM" when I told him about the ad!

I'm one happy/grateful lady.

It had been a rough December because we do so much charity work in December including giving away a bunch of quilts, presents, etc. so I was really tired plus I got dreadfully sick on the 17th which lasted several weeks.

But I know that a few of you can really be happy with me. Just wanted to share my good news! I feel so privileged. I've tested the machine and all seems to work well.

Congratulations on your new machine. You will love it! Please post pictures of your projects. Can't wait to see them.

I love hearing stories like this.

Great, so happy for you and know you will enjoy it. Show us some things you make with it.

That is wonderful - it sounds like it was meant for YOU!

What a wonderful thing to happen. When things like that happen I just figure it was suppose to be yours. Have fun with it.

I am very happy for you. Enjoy your new machine and hope you are feeling better as well.

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Originally Posted by ube quilting (Post 5788612)

What a happy ending for you and the machine. now to post some of the great work you are going to do!
peace:D

I will be, in the future. Right now DH and son and putting in cabinets and I am basically getting a new sewing room--we took almost everything out of the old one--my table, small sewing machine table and moved it all to the basement. The new Horizon stayed in its box for a week before I tried it out. I know, I know, but I had a 3000 piece jigsaw puzzle on the table and couldn't risk losing a piece by bringing out the sewing machine...plus I know myself. If I had brought out the sewing machine, the puzzle never would have gotten finished.

So, until the new countertop is delivered (maybe today) ?? (We ordered kitchen cabinet counter top to fit what I needed in that room) the Janome 12000 is on my dining room table. I did a sample embroidery design to test it out and get a feel for it. When the counter top is delivered (or we go and get it), DH will install it and I can move back into my sewing room. Until then, I'm kind of like a duck in a bathtub--and just decided to sew together some of my 4" squares, trying to use up some of my numerous misc. squares --will attempt to do something like I did with 2.5" squares only I have way more 4" squares.

I don't have that many "big" designs yet for the embroidery part--will wait til emblibrary has a sale again and get some of the larger designs I've had my eye on. This whole thing happened much faster than I had originally thought, so it kind of caught me by surprise and I'm still in shock, a bit, that I have this machine--really all three of my Janomes now--350E, 7700, and 12000. It was after I got my 7700 in 2010 that I found this quilting board. I began to search the internet for more information and needed some support on a different level than the people right around me. Most of them think if you can sew two pieces of fabric together somehow that you are "talented". ;(

So, I will be posting pictures eventually...but I am not getting rid of my 7700--and I feel so very blessed!

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Originally Posted by SewCrazy4Quilts (Post 5789178)

Bóg błogosławi tych, którzy czynią dobro. Bardzo szczęśliwy dla Ciebie i Twojej wspaniały skarb nowego!. Cheers ~

Jak pisała to? Czy pani zna po polsku?

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Originally Posted by solstice3 (Post 5790481)

Congrats to you. I may be able to understand why she filed for divorce though! What a dirty trick on his part....unless it was all his $$ that paid for it.

I believe it was--and while he was up in Sweden working, she found someone else and filed for divorce to be with the new guy--filed a restraining order against the guy who bought the machine. That's all I know....and all I needed to know--all I wanted to do was make sure it wasn't a stolen machine and I was satisfied that it wasn't.)

(The person selling the machine was a friend of the husband's.)

I don't believe for a minute the wife actually wanted it after all or the pressure feet wouldn't still have been in their original plastic bags and the hoops, etc. Everything was as if in the original unopened state--except the box itself was kind of "beat up".

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Originally Posted by justflyingin (Post 5794242)

I--will wait til emblibrary has a sale again and get some of the larger designs I've had my eye on.

I had to laugh. As soon as I posted all these, I went to my inbox and got an email saying they are having a Happy Hour sale...will definitely check it out!

God Bless you both. I can only wish you the very best. I make and give away dolls for VERY sick kids (most with cancer) and just sent out 2 today. That means 139 dolls so far have found a child to love.

Keep up the good work. I know that was no accident that you got your dream machine. Good for you.

Vickey Stamps

How wonderful! So happy for you!

Congratulations on your wonderful find! Enjoy!

You are one very lucky lady!

Some things are just meant to be!

A few years, there was a guy who was selling his ex-wife's wedding dress on ebay. A big burly guy with tatoos with his due rag on his head was modeling the ex's dress. It was the funniest ad I have ever seen.

Enjoy the machine. If she had wanted it, she would have taken it with her when she left. He's selling it. You are the lucky buyer.
Best wishes!

I love reading about somebody finding a great deal! Good for you!