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Can't wait to see it after the makeover! What a great birthday gift! Happy birthday!
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Great birthday gift! Please show us pics of her cleaned up! :)
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Oh no, I made a comment and forgot to wish you
HAPPY BIRTHDAY :D:D |
Well what a nice happy birthday gift! Hope your day was wonderful. Bet the machine will be pretty.
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Arhhhhhh! Why can't I luck into something like that? She is adorable...love the case, too. Happiest of birthdays to you.
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Wow! Nice find.
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You are one lucky Birthday Girl.
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Great birthday gift!
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Love the machine, love the name! Please post pictures when she is all cleaned up and let us know how you did it, if you don't mind.
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Originally Posted by jillaine
Wow! My first Climax! (sorry, couldn't resist!)
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Originally Posted by ragqueen03
my mil has a treadle climax machine. she uses it as decoration. i love it!!! she told me when she passes on i can have her longaberger basket collection - duh i want that machine. seriously i hope she is with us for a very long time. this is the first time i ever saw another onee
After my father died and my mom moved I found that she had "downsized" and got rid of some items I loved and carefully kept some from my childhood for me that I didn't have any emotional connection to at all. I had only myself to blame, because she'd asked me if there was anything I wanted. I was too busy with little ones at the time to even think what there might have been until it was too late. She gave her old Kenmore in a great little parlor cabinet to my SIL, who later divorced my brother but kept that machine (although she does not sew!). Ouch! Congrats on rescuing this nifty old machine. |
Happy Birthday. You are so lucky to have found that beauty. Can't wait to see her all shined up. I went to the site that was posted on the history of your machine, but the website was unable to display it.
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What a great birthday present...she will be gorgeous after her spa treatments :thumbup: :thumbup:
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Is it electric or treadle?
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WOW now where in the world did that come from?? Just love the name, never heard of it before. Could not get into the web site, played around with it and no go. Bet its got a story to tell...
My find at the Godwill Pound store this Friday was about 15 lbs of material, all kinds, fat quarters, larger 2 or 3 yd pieces, some scraps, lot of Batiks. Someone must have died or closed a quilt shop. When I get thru sorting them will take a photo and upload it for you to lick your lips over. Had my friend and her teen age granddaughter digging in these bins for me. Cost approx 20.00 for all of it. Everything is sold by the pound by the way. |
I had trouble getting the website when I first tried the link...COPY AND THEN REMOVE THE FINAL DOT at the end and it comes up.
Originally Posted by QuiltingJaguar
WOW now where in the world did that come from?? Just love the name, never heard of it before. Could not get into the web site, played around with it and no go. Bet its got a story to tell...
My find at the Godwill Pound store this Friday was about 15 lbs of material, all kinds, fat quarters, larger 2 or 3 yd pieces, some scraps, lot of Batiks. Someone must have died or closed a quilt shop. When I get thru sorting them will take a photo and upload it for you to lick your lips over. Had my friend and her teen age granddaughter digging in these bins for me. Cost approx 20.00 for all of it. Everything is sold by the pound by the way. |
She will be gorgeous. I see thread...does she work?
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I think you are right, she is going to be a beauty when you clean her up. Happy Birthday
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"Precious and Few" Beautiful machine!
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What a nice birthday present, I also had a birthday Friday, went Thrift store shopping, but didn't find anything like yours.
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5 dollars?? Now if that's not the best deal ever, I don't know what is! Congrats on your fun find!!
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everybody should have at least one ;) .
HAPPY BIRTHDAY (and many more :mrgreen: ) |
First one I've seen like that. Lucky you!
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Wow!
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I was wondering how do you clean the older machines up. What do you use on the machine? I know how to do the wood cabinet or at least I used too!
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Happy Birthday and what a grand birthday present! I too am sure she will clean up just lovely and the cabinet I would try and keep too!
This I just read and saved on cleaning old cabinets... hope this is helpful. http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-133115-1.htm |
Lucky you! She will be beautiful when shiny and clean. Wishing many years of joy with this little machine. Happy Birthday to you!! Ronda
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WOW.. a neat find...and what a name for a machine. yeah???
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Happy Birthday, what a great gift.
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Originally Posted by Lostn51
Originally Posted by wannaquilt1
Omg I want one just so I can say "I finally got my Climax" lolololol. No but seriously enjoy! She's a bute!
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Gotta love those estate sales and the kind people who work them.
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Happy Birthday. It is not the cost of the gift that counts, right? She will be a beauty.
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Another Cinderella story, don't you just love them?
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2 Attachment(s)
Update finally found site that managed to date her to 1894 also got drawers open and there was this box full of attachments and a very beat up manual
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Originally Posted by DebraK
heehee, I like the name ;-)
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Lovely!!! Lucky you....we NEVER see deals like that in California. Out here, everyone thinks their vintage/antique machines are made of 24K gold!!! :cry:
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Her workings seem to be alright everything thats supposed to move moves i feel like she is made of gold she is special
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pretty!
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What do you use on the machine itself that won't take the decorations off of it. Make it shine and such?
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Originally Posted by jayelee
I went to an estate sale this morning and saw this girl they hadit marked ten dollars but Mom girl said it was my birthday and the woman gave it to her for the five dollars she had in her pocketso she could give it to me for my birthday
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