aardvarq

My Find?

Three weekends ago, I had a taupe featherweight WALK-IN to MY garage sale!

My group was collecting donations for scholarship fundraising.

The featherweight was dropped off for sale.

I went into shock but managed to buy it immediately from my own garage. I have cleaned and tuned it up, but it is waiting for its first project.

Aardie.

CAJAMK

I think you get the prize for that story....priceless! I am sitting here laughing with envy!

lizzy

My best finds were found by my husband. He bought 2 featherweights at 2 different garage sales, one was $40 and the other was $50. Both in working order. They both included the cases and all parts for the machine.

zactanls

I got a box full of quilting magazines for $5.00 and then at a church sale got a box full of quilting books for $3.00. Can't beat those sales

romney5

a longarm quilter or a sew/quilt/embroidery machine. Don't tell me it is a longarm as I may just have to kill myself!

I thought getting a janome/kenmore 19006 table top machine was a good deal at 650.00

go figure. good job!

Debi S

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Debi

mulema

I have been reading the wonderful finds at at yard sales. A couple of years ago my husband bought a vintage singer in a cabinet for $20 dollars. with lots of attachments. It is in wonerful condition and I am forever using it to repair grandsons jeans. my newer machine will not sew through denim. I love it. don;t know how to use all the attachments but am very happy with it.

klgreene

I haven't had any finds at garage sale, but I was really stupid a couple years ago. I hadn't been quilting in a while and I must have had 100 magazine or more. So instead of throwing them away, I figured someone might buy them in a garage sale. $3.00...... now I could just kick myself. But some times you just have to clean house.And it gives me reason to buy more.

CAJAMK

Does your huband have a brother??? Wow that is awesome!!

mshawii

Mine aren't garage sales, but freebie's. First one was from a PEO sister, who had an old machine in her garage for 20 years, and had lost the key to even get into it. She knew I sewed so she asked me if I wanted it. I told her yes and so I went and picked it up. Turned out it was a bentwood case with a Singer Centenial issue.
The second one was a lady who judges dog shows came to me and said she needed a lining of a skirt shortened, and if I was interested, she had a sewing machine that she had gotten when she got married, and her Mother in law had bought it for her because she felt every household should have a sewing machine. This gal had never opened the machine up so it is off the showroom floor new. Probably a late 50's Singer. Not sure of the date or even how much either machine is worth. The last machine only needed a damp cloth to wipe the dust off and I oiled it, and the cover needed soap and water to clean it. Both are heavy weight machines to carry, but sew like a dream. Both have the boxes of about 12 attachments.