My mom is the best
04-14-2011, 06:19 AM
#33
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Originally Posted by familyfun
I just got a call from my mom and she told me if she could find a Viking 1 at a good price she would buy it for me. She has a couple of older vikings that are embroidery machines and said they are the best workhorse machines out there. When my cheap machine broke she gave me one of her Brothers to use. However since it has been on the brink twice now she decided it just isn't suited for all the piecing and quilting I do.. She said I really need that old workhorse. Hopefully we can go to her friends in the next couple of days so I can test drive hers.. my mom is just so excited i have a hobby realated to the one she loves. She said i need the proper machine and she knows i am short on cash. She is doing yet another generous thing for me.
Too bad you don't already have a good working machine, with Mother's Day coming up you could make her a special Mother's Day quilt or wall hanging. I wish my Mother were still liveing, because I would already have made her more than one special quilts. However, she passed away over 20 yrs. ago and I wasn't really into quilting that much when she was living. Too busy working and getting two ready for college. I miss her so much even today. We were such close friends as well.
04-14-2011, 07:46 AM
#35
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Location: Ohio
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To have a mom willing to help you out with a new machine or a granddaughter who wants to know which machine will be hers someday is such a blessing!
I see you're in Ohio. Me, too. Not sure where in Ohio you are, but I've been checking Craigslist for Viking software & I came across this listing for a Designer 1: http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/art/2290333106.html
Don't know if that's what you had in mind, but I paid about the same for my Designer 1 a year and a half ago & it was money well spent. I bought it to replace my 3 separate sewing, embroidery & straight stitch only quilting machines & I love, love, love it! It's great for free motion quilting & has the best satin stitch I've ever seen.
Good luck & have fun machine shopping!!
I see you're in Ohio. Me, too. Not sure where in Ohio you are, but I've been checking Craigslist for Viking software & I came across this listing for a Designer 1: http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/art/2290333106.html
Don't know if that's what you had in mind, but I paid about the same for my Designer 1 a year and a half ago & it was money well spent. I bought it to replace my 3 separate sewing, embroidery & straight stitch only quilting machines & I love, love, love it! It's great for free motion quilting & has the best satin stitch I've ever seen.
Good luck & have fun machine shopping!!
04-14-2011, 07:58 AM
#36
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Yes we are cool!!! My mom doesn't sew, but she got me a Brother LS2125 that a friend of hers was going to get rid of (she quit sewing - ?????), so my mom took it for me!! Haven't used it yet (in another state), but will this fall!!!
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