CAJAMK

I love those kind of sales. I went to one like that except it was a mennonite church sale in Pennsylavania last year. It was great!

katcincinnati

I bought a Singer 5530 at an estate sale for $1.00. Minus the power cord and bobbin case. Have been trying to find a cord with foot pedal, bobbin case and flat bed to make the open arm into a flatbed.

kt53sews

I went to a sale with fabric and quilt supply's . had all sorts of things to explore, and got to talking to the lady and found she was moving to a smaller place and had a Nolting longarm that would not fit the new place and she wanted to know if I was interested. I said I would look at it, it was on a 14 ft. table and she had years of patterns and other things that went with it.
I took it home for $500 ; sewing machine and table and patterns and box of bobbins and other goodies.. It needed some adjusting the next year and the repair guy said I could sell it for $2000, I said thanks and took it home, happy about my find..

deedum

My best find ever, a 1886 treadle machine all orginal, complete with everything. curved drawers and wrought iron. Oh I love that machine, worked great too! $10 bucks, had it for about 10 yrs and hubby was tired of moving it around our victorian house so we sold it when we moved. Regret that! I have found new bags of batting for $1.00, fabrics of totes for a few bucks. Still think I will find a feathreweight sometime, it is waiting for me, I just know it, then maybe I will get over selling my treadle, what was I thinking!

ksjohn

Last week i got a janome in a horn cabinet for $5 . And During the summer my husband bought me a singer for 50 cents its was probably a machine from the 90"s all was wrong was the set screw from the hand wheel had loosened and fallen inside...they both probably have less than an hour of sewing on them...mint condition. He always looks for deals to try to out do me , thank goodness its sewing stuff he usually buys for me.

karate lady

Quilting fabric for 25 cents a yard. Went home with a cardboard box full for $7.00 and I am a beginner. so that helped me build a stash......

purplefiend

Here is a featherweight and the $5 table I found at a HS band fund raiser. The table is missing the insert, but its not necessary when the machine is in the table.

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...45965719RMiKSl

Sharon W.

purplefiend

My guild has a "yard sale" every other year. Its great! You can sell stuff and acquire more stuff. lol

purplefiend

I used to sell new machines at a store and one of my customers had bought a new machine and gave my her old Necchi 535. She said it was broken, fortunately I work on Featherweights and I figured out pretty quickly that all the problems were operator error. #1 She was using the wrong bobbin class 66, rather than class 15. #2 There was at least a whole spool of thread wrapped around the inside of the handwheel. #3 It hadn't been cleaned or oiled in who knows how long.
Once I fixed all those things it sewed like a new machine!
I gave it to a friend of my DD's and he's thrilled to have a machine that sews properly. He'd gone through 2 really cheap Singers trying to make costumes.
Sharon W.

jitkaau

More to the point - where did he obtain them if he was happy to make a profit at $45???