SEWING MACHINE FAIRY STRUCK!

I wondered where I left that 401.......... JUST KIDDING!!!

What a nice surprise! Did you lose a tooth? Was it the Tooth Fairy, do you think? I don't suppose you've checked any other closets you haven't checked in a while?

Hey, if I ever make it to Reno, you will see a LOT more gone than just a

I only have one closet. The coat closet is full with the vacuum cleaner and board games, the linen closet has no space big enough to fit one, my daughter took the doors off her closet and has a writing table set up in it with a few clothes hanging to the side, and the boys' closet has a bookcase in it under their shirts. *sigh*

I think it was the "Nice things can still happen to you so stop being so pessimistic" fairy myself.

Wow! Cover me emerald green!

The sewing machine goblins struck here! I opened up my Cub 8 that has been resting in the loft to discover that the motor is OK but the stitch selector is busted! :(

Ha! Whatever works. Sounds like it was just what you needed. Come ahead -- I must get rid of some of these machines. I'm sooo out of room, and what did I just do? Got an old store spool cabinet which turned out to be a whole lot larger than I expected. Can you see me trying to explain to DH that now we need the counter to put it on and as long as we're doing that, have you seen those old cash registers with all the fancy embossed metal and the marble shelves, and you didn't really need that recliner and TV in that big entertainment center, did you? No? I didn't think it would work. Well, I'll just have to go back to figuring out what to do with all this stuff. I refuse to move. This is the only house I want to live in, so I can't follow George Carlin's advice and get a place to hold my stuff so I can get more stuff. Maybe he didn't mean that as advice.......

Nope. Took the end cover off and a bit of black plastic fell out... A little digging revealed where it had come off the stitch selector mechanism, and a similar bit is missing at the other end... The other missing bit is either buried in the machine (but no rattles!) or long gone! It will need at least a replacement part (IF one can be found for a 24 YO machine!).

Plastic parts. The Root of All Evil. *sigh* You probably need a donor machine. Or an OSMG who never threw anything away. Best of luck.

Ok. You win. I have cleaned out my closets before and found clothing I thought I'd gotten rid of. I have cleaned out my closets before and found books I thought I had gotten rid of. I have cleaned out my closets and found a few things that I didn't remember getting but eventually had an "AH HA!" moment and could name from whence they came.

I have never cleaned out my closet and found a sewing machine that I'd never seen before.

You are the Closet Cleaning Queen, I bow before you. ;)

Have fun with it!! Hope you get it powered up soon.

Sharon

--whose "babies" are mostly all in the sewing machine hospital right now because the movers didn't pack them well. the only good part of this is that said movers will pay off the sewing machine doctor. *sigh*

They are not at all common, so a donor may never turn up. I've only ever seen one on ebay, for example... However, there is a F&R guru in Finchley who may find it a part. Otherwise, I may try to get a metal replacement made, using the plastic bit as a pattern. I shall ring the fella during the week and see what can be done.

Oh, Sharon!!! How awful, you have my most sincere sympathy. You should casually mention the name of this "moving" company. Really, you should.

in, so I can't follow George

Glad I made you smile. Do you suppose that we are all worried that there will be no more fabric? Patterns? Notions? So we need to stock up?

Well, I'll never again see *that* fabric, and it's such a cheap price!

Joy Beeson

whew! when i read the subject, i could not decide if the fairy had gone on strike (we are in the middle of an airline mechanic's strike, here...), or if something had hit that poor fairy broadside! i am so relieved to find that she is still functional. that leaves hope for me when i tackle that terminally packed closet in the bedroom. i know it is time...there are lord of the rings action figures leaking out one side. (okay, okay...i'm a "closet " geek, in every sense of the word...).

sewing machine fairies RULE!!!!!

admom

Yes, exactly! Thanks for putting words to it for me!

Now I know just what to say.

Michelle Giordano

Have you ever seen a fabric that you thought "Gee, that would look nice as...." but didn't buy it for whatever reason - and then looked for it again AND IT WASN'T THERE? It is the fear of not being able to get those three metres of that oh so cute (or different, or whatever adjective you go by) fabric that spurs us on. At least we know that we have that metreage - we're just waiting until we remember what it was we were going to make! Cynthia