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This is curious because it is not news. The acquisition was in December of 2005, what is new is the endorsement by Martha Stewart.

I suspect it is good. The reason is that the company is actively promoting home sewing, not just home embroidery. The Viking-Singer-Pfaff combination brings three excellent brands together without merging the product lines. The three brands continue to stand apart, under a holding-company leadership.

This is certainly bound to be better than what happened with James Henry Ting's Semi-Tech enterprise.

My opinion, of course, is worth every penny paid for it. ;-)

Not only that, but from the newscast I saw yesterday, she is going to marry a billionaire in the near future. Emily

Any particular one? ;-)

I don't *do* anything with Martha's name attached...I have a Kenmore and a Euro-Pro......guess I need to research where I will be getting my serger from more carefully

This one:

Her fingers are everywhere! She has expanded from K-Mart to Macy's! (I used to like the Bon Marche, but now it is Macy's... so if I want stuff that is not at Target or Fred Meyer, I go to Macy's).

I have no problem with her, though my clean freak, super neat mother-in-law hates her (I don't know why, my MIL arranges flowers for her parish church, keeps a neat as a pin house, dresses impeccably, cooks quite well, knits, used to sew --- she is more of a Martha Stewart than Martha!).... And I applaud any effort to make sewing more accessible and acceptible. I get tired of the fawning over my efforts, or the dismissal of my "little hobby"... almost as tired I get when someone wants to know where they can get a pattern for a pillowcase!

I have a Kenmore and

Not that it really matters... Sergers are made by just two or three companies in Asia.

I borrowed a friend's 15 year old Bernina serger which is identical to this Juki MO 644D:

offkilterquilter wrote in news:FdWdnb9I5rF8H4jbnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

Get a good used Bernina off eBay and have it serviced. Can't go wrong ;)

Darn! Those domestic divas get all the good billionaires.

Yes, that is her billionaire intended. She spoke about him going into space and how much she'd like to go. His photo made today's front page of the Houston paper about this trip. Emily

sounds like a plan :-) will probably make a visit to my sewing machine repair lady (she can handle treadles on up to the computerized machines...LOVE her!!!) and see what she has to offer...will have to take my darling Kenmore in for service and cleaning anyway. I've taken care of the cleaning, but poor hting hasn't been seen by a professional since she was first sold to us....um..16 years ago!!

Larisa

Here, here... I absolutely can't stand the woman, and feel she should really be in prison, where she clearly belongs (criminals belong in prison, not in some country club).

I have many friends who live in the area she had her Connecticut home in, and no one in the area could stand how she behaved towards others. I understand that she was a horrid hostess in reality, telling her guests how they had to behave in her house, making people take off their shoes, etc..

me

This weekend, she is in Russia to see her "intended" off in space. Will she begin telling them how to organize parties, etc? I never cared about her and have never watch her shows. Emily

Martha Stewart always creeped me out, I think mainly because I couldn't really "read" her, and I had no idea what is behind that facade. I still don't have any idea. It was not until I had moved up here to Connecticut also and been here a few years, and seen how New England people are, that I realized that she is just very New England Reserved. (Although I'm sure that the Jail part is not a common New England trait.) I can't comment on the Inhospitability part though- my experience of Nutmegs is that they are quite reserved socially, and once you crack that reserve, there is a lot more....reserve. If you try to strike up a conversation with someone in public, they look at you like you got rocks in your head. They can have a warm heart though at times of need, in their defense.

I've never cared much for her, but I thought the charges against her were a bit extreme - bogus, even, - and she took the sentence with a lot of guts. I don't think there is anything in her background that prepared her for that kind of experience, and she never whined about it. I give her credit for that.

I second that. I have to wonder a little at the open hostility expressed by some people. Good grief, if you don't like her crafting/gardening/homemaker hints, flip the dial!

I was never convinced she did what she was accused of, and I think her little weasel of a broker threw her to the wolves.

Beverly

Jealousy.

gwh

"BEI Design" wrote in news:xfednVdAdfTh7YXbnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

it was all politics. Martha is a Democrat & donates to the Democratic campaigns. the Republicans used a minor (really minor compared to the bank shennanigans the Republicans did in the 80s!) flub to cause a big media circus to draw attention away from them. it's quite amusing, in a sad way, how some "scandal" involving an entertainer or minor (opposite party) official

Exactly...

I actually have more of a beef with Nancy Zieman and Oxmoor House after I ordered one of her books.

It seems that Oxmoor thought since I ordered a couple of books from them, that I would like MORE! So they sent me books I did not order and billed me for them. It took me a couple of go-arounds with them to stop... and I vowed to never buy from Oxmoor House ever again (note: Sunset Magazine/books did the same thing, but at least they were less stupid about it!).

Anyway, if I want to read the Martha magazine (or Sunset, the Wall Street Journal or others) all I have to do is go up to the library and sit in their nice sunny periodical reading area.

Also, to watch her program I just set up the VCR in the kitchen to record it, and on a Friday afternoon while puttering around cooking or foldling laundry I play all 5 hours, zipping through the stuff I find boring (like flower arranging, celebrities talking about their new book, commercials, make-up makeovers and other stuff). I don't zip through, but don't really pay attention much to the crafts I would never do, like making flowers from coffee filters or knick-knacks by felting wool. I will occasionally yell back when she dumps a handful of salt in something (some family members have to avoid salt), or says something like "vinegar setting in the dye" (it is an acid that actually just helps rinse out loose dye).

But seriously, her being in business with a company is no reason for me to choose or not choose to buy an item, especially sewing machines.

Personally, I would be glad if she convinced people that sewing is not that difficult or arduous for most basic stuff. Especiallly since often "No Sew" crud is even more difficult to deal with. I once made the mistake of getting a "no-sew" shade kit, only to find out that attaching large pieces of fabric with iron on stuff is hard to do straight... much easier to seam with a sewing machine. Then I found out when you use iron-on stuff in a window which gets warm... it falls apart. Now I know why that kit was in a clearance sale. (I have since made several more roman shades after that lesson, even to the point of avoiding ring tape, it is far easier to get the rings and sew them on by machine with a zig-zag and 0 stitch length).

Well said!