Because I collect old machines, I am told that I am WEIRD!! And even weirder cause I bring them all to life! That's Ms. Weirdo to you then!

You are not Weird... you are talented....
I'm beginning to appreciate the older machines.

Then there must be a lot of wierdo's on this board--including me :lol: :lol: :lol:

Another weirdo here.

You just needed to find the right people to hang out with! :lol:

WE Weirdo's Keep the world Rolling ON
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Weird??? Old machines and vintage fabric...my world would be colourless without them. How about mildly eccentric....Weird is just soooooo ordinary!

Guess I am too!

AMEN SISTER SINGER!

Does this mean that this is now a gathering place for Weirdo's -Its so nice to finally find the rest of the Clan :lol: :lol:

Lots of us weirdos here

I like being a weirdo then........ hee hee

My hubby "dumpster dives"...not really, but an awful lot of times he comes home with this or that he found in the dumpster..."Look at what somebody threw away" he'll say. Most of the stuff is some sort of power tool or appliance. The last thing he brought home Friday was a chainsaw. He had it cleaned and running on Sunday. Now if he would just sell some of it so we had room for our cars in the garages LOL!!!

oh my, that's my middle name,

[quote=girliegirl]Because I collect old machines, I am told that I am WEIRD!! And even weirder cause I bring them all to life!
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Simply smile and agree with them. It'll mess up their minds.

lol! maybe I should start a collectors clan of machines!
ok, how do i do that?

Yeah! and laugh as you agree, that will put them in a head spin! while they walk away watching their back.... LMAO
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hi Weirdo nice to meet you my mane is mrs Weirdo..lol

You're not alone!! My DH says if I got rid of 7 of my machines, I'd have more room in my sewing room. LOL

nice to meet you too!

My response would be either:

"To each his own", said the little old lady as she kissed her cow.
Or
Everyone in the world is peculiar but me and thee, and sometimes I worry about thee.

Or how about?
Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

These old machine last, how many of the new machines crash or are obsolete after 5 years? It's great that you bring them back to life. Throwing things away is just way to easy these days.

I guess I am wierd too, but proud of it!! :lol:

Proud to be a member of this "weird" offshoot group. Except, nothing weird about us at all...it's them that have the problem!! LOL!

i think i should join your clan to. i have a featherweight, a 301, a 99, and a hand crank (all singers). i also have 2 new machines i use all the time, the first singer my parents gave me when i was in high school (so many years ago) and a brother from the 60's a friend gave me. yes. . . if i gave up some of my machines i too would have more room.

People who pass those sorts of comments on others' pass times are generally Philistines...
Keep up the weirdness if it makes you happy and does harm to no - one.

I have 5 Singer treadles, 7 Featherweights, don't know how many 99's we have, a few 15's and a couple of 128's in addition to two antique "salesmen" Singers, a Wilcox and Gibbs and an 1861 Grover and Baker treadle. All this in a Double Wide Mobile Home. I finally had to cancel my DH's PayPal account and not let him have the password to mine. LOL

Sounds perfectly normal to me. ;-)

Much to my husbands chagrin.. it sounds just like me.
...wait, I'm not weird, I'm "eccentric!"8-)

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Gosh I'm glad I am in such good company. My DIL tells me I only have two hands so it is crazy to have multiple machines.
So glad she is in CA. and I am in VA.

Count me in that group! Yesterday I walked into Goodwill and right there before my eyes was a beautiful old Singer machine with the old shuttle bobbin casing. The decals looked perfect like the machine was barely used...and....here comes the sad part....a man was looking at the machine. I made a comment about how beautiful it was and he asked me to tell him about the machine...so I did. Then, he said he was only buying it to try to make money off the machine! He asked what I thought it was worth (the price tag was $49.95) and I told him I thought it was worth hours and hours of fun sewing and quilting. I said it was worth the money. The motor was strong and it was in prestine condition! Oh...how I wanted that machine! But, he had first dibs on it so I walked away and when I came back to the front of the store, the man and the Singer were gone!

Revel in your uniqueness. I do. Welcome to the weird club.

I think that when you are interested in something like quilting it's natural to respect where it came from. I love finding out the history on something. Sometimes it amazes me how long things have managed to stay around or what they went thru. I recently bought a featherweight from the UK and when I got it it wasn't set for US electrical circuit so I was going to convert it over. Then I found out it was made in Scotland in 1938 and decided that I'd buy a converter and leave her as she was orginally made; it only seemed right. So if you are wierd just know; there are a lot of us out there with you

One man's junk is another man's treasure. I don't think it make us weird, it's just to each his own. I guess I'm a member of the weirdo clan

Ditto!!!!

New weirdo here! I need an "new" machine, but have found two old machines at thrift shops. One a black Dressmaker Pro Deluxe. The other a green Universal. The only thing I know about either machine is that they have been judged as junk. They both work, and are very very heavy. Someone loved them at one time, and the workmanship is flawless!
They may not be Featherweights, which would be great, but they are beautiful! They were priced at $10.00 each, and well worth it. I Love my "weird" machines and will keep collecting them.
Barbara

you should of rolled him in the parking lot for it! Damn girl, I would of helped you !!! I guess I need to do a Brat 101 hand booklet...

To me, Nothing like Preserving the Past!!! I have 3 right now. And if the next one catches my fancy...I will have 4...... :wink: :wink:

I am the same way and I LOVE it! They are the ones who are weird! So nah!

I have been told on more than one occasion that I am eccentric. So count me in!

I'm in too.... sometimes to my DH dismay! Since I have more than 10 sewing machines and most of them I've taken from not working or nearly not working back to the wonderful and beautiful tools they are. Besides bringing them back to life is part of the fun! Now on to the hardest yet...... a totally frozen 201.

:)