maryb119

I don't lend my stuff out to anyone. If they want something, they can buy it...just like I did.

Lori S

It would have to be a really good friend for me to lend... and one that I have seen how they handle their own tools. I ne lent my sewing machine to relative and it came back with a broken bobbin case. So no more !

Toni C

I figure it this way. I worked HARD for my things, so I'm sorry but no. I've gone to a class that a lady took my ruler (thought I wasn't looking I guess) when it was time to pack up I asked for it back. She informed me it was hers. I asked her to make sure and she started yelling. I reached in and pulled out my ruler and showed all where my name was branded. She left, and later a couple of other ladies told me any class she took something turned up missing. Unreal!
Toni

luvstoquilt

I sew with a small group of friends and we do share but I would not be willing to share with others unless I knew how they cared for their "school supplies".

Caroline94535

I learned the "never loan tools" lesson the hard way - way back in 1978.

I've mentioned my 1975 Singer Fashion Mate 252 before. It was my only machine at the time and I sewed the devil out of it.

An acquaintance, a neighbor, with a toddler, wanted to borrow it to make simple kitchen curtains. I said "yes" without giving it a second thought. After a month I had to start asking her when she would be finished. After the second month I began pestering her. She lived three doors down in a small complex of small apartments. She returned it in the third month.

The spool pin was broken. She tried to glue the stub back into the machine, and dribbled glue all across the top. It's still stuck there.

The felt pad was "lost." Her kid probably ate it.

The bobbin was "lost."

The case was dirty and sticky.

Her son had scratched the outside of the case with a metal toy truck - then he "colored" it with a red marker. She thought that was cute.

My FM still wears the battle scars from the one and only time it was loaned out.

rebeljane

I would not lend my machine to ANYONE, my daughter lent my machine to a friend without me knowing and she jammed cotton in around the bobbin holder, she removed the bobbin holder and had no idea how to put it back and neither did I, trip to the repair man which I had to pay for - not impressed.

SittingPretty

No, I would not like to lend anything from my quilting supply. People are either careless, or they forgot they borrowed it from you.

juneayerza

Toni, this is just ONE of the reasons I don't like taking classes. It seems to never fail when it is clean up time someone is missing something. Whether it picked-up by accident or taken on purpose; it doesn't matter, it's gone.

I worked two years longer so I could buy the quilting tools I wanted, like Creative Grid rulers, a new sewing machine, quilting tables, etc... In retirement, I don't want to have to replace things I worked hard to have just because someone is careless by taking something that doesn't belong to them or breaking a borrowed item. If that makes me selfish, that is just too bad.

Pam B

I would (and do) share things with my good friend and quilting buddy. Honestly, I think for anyone else I'd just suggest they use my things at my house.

ThreadHead

No, I will never lend out my tools.