Allsaints Spitalfields - sewing machine hoarders!
11-30-2011, 03:10 PM
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Is that why the prices on vintage machines has gone up so much in the past 2 years? Hummmmm.....kinda dumb if you ask me. Just using them as, literally, window dressing. What happens if they change their minds about it? Where will all the ladies go????
11-30-2011, 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by jljack
Is that why the prices on vintage machines has gone up so much in the past 2 years? Hummmmm.....kinda dumb if you ask me. Just using them as, literally, window dressing. What happens if they change their minds about it? Where will all the ladies go????
11-30-2011, 07:29 PM
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Allsaints Spitalfields-sewing machine hoarders
Originally Posted by vintagemotif
Hopefully they don't trash them when the store has decided to change the "look". Let's hope they sell them off or donate to those of us that love to sew with vintage machines.
12-01-2011, 01:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Caroline S
OMG. I have this mental image of all of us vintage machine enthusiasts standing outside of the window drooling like Pavlov's dogs.
12-01-2011, 07:43 AM
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My son went to Chicago and sent me pictures of the Allsaints there... He knew I would love the machines. He was a little disappointed that I was already aware of these stores and the sewing machine windows. I told him this is just a testimony to how many millions of these machines are out there. So many millions were made and the vast majority of them are still running, or can be refurbished to run.
One day Allsaints will decide to change their look, and all these machines will end up FOR SALE! Woo, hooo, won't that be great?
One day Allsaints will decide to change their look, and all these machines will end up FOR SALE! Woo, hooo, won't that be great?
12-01-2011, 06:22 PM
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i can see the mob of renegade quilters, driven mad by the sight of all those hoarded vintage machines.....they all have masks made of old quilts to pull over their heads, and they are smuggling in their custom made bow tie sacks to stash their stolen machines in after they use a new plastic geared machine, tossed through the plate glass window, to grant freedom to all those imprisoned beauties... i call dibs on a featherweight!!!!!
12-01-2011, 06:39 PM
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Was in Las Vegas last summer and on the second floor of the Cosmopolitan Casino downtown is an All Saints store with sewing machines just like this. There are many larger sewing machines inside the store and yes it is a clothing store but when you sew all your looking at is the many hundreds of sewing machines not the cloths that is hanging from large spools. You could spend many hours just looking and the primative old sewing machines.
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