Vintage

sooo... I have been looking for a sewing machine that is similar to my mom's,
you might ask why? When I have a great general sewing machine.
Well...
1. Her's sews so much cleaner than mine (meaning precision of stitches and fine-ness)
2. Has better stitches for the binding of quilts (cause we all know I can not sew straight)
3. It can be fixed because its not all plastic :D


so... I began to search ebay for these over 40 year old Singer sewing machines... and what did I find... the good ones, in good shape with the attachments and etc. were selling for over $200! wow I thought way to hold your value!
however I thought over $200 is over my budget for a sewing machine so I started watching them,
and low and behold I won one!!!

this is what showed up at my door on tuesday

Check out the button-holer that came with it... and all the different options for  types of button holes I can now make... 

and a ridiculous number of feet/attachments I will never use

and in addition to the 20 something built in stitches pop one of these bad boys in and you get a different  stitch.

and I found this sweet vintage sewing book at a library book sale for 10 cents :D... I thought... hm... vintage book for vintage machine

now to make Josh a curtain for his office... using my other vintage  Reader's Digest complete guide to sewing... $1.00 goodwill.

Go Vintage!