One of the unfortunate side effects of going to the quilt expo each year is that I leave wanting to upgrade my sewing machine to a fancier one that can do cooler stitching or better quilting.
My current sewing machine was built in the 80's and is a hand me down from someone in our family. I've used it for the past 15 years or so and it's always done the job. But after helping out with one of the quilt workshops I was even more convince that I should maybe start saving for a new machine.
There were just all these nifty attachments that made quilting so much easier!
However, this past weekend I pulled out this little container with attachments that came with my sewing machine. I started playing around with some of the attachments and discovered that I can actually do many of the techniques that these fancier machines can do!
The two attachments I'm most excited about is that I have a quilting foot (this lets you do free motion quilting) and then a seam guide (this attaches near the foot of the machine and adjusts to whatever seam allowance you want).
Who knew? I've had these attachments for years but since I didn't have an instruction manual...I never took the time to research what all these attachments can do or how to even attach them to the sewing machine.
That was kind of nice to find out because I really didn't want to start saving $2,000 for a new sewing machine.
So my hand me down sewing machine that is 30 year's old is actually pretty cool.
God is good all the time!!!!
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Wise words. I have this machine also, and am amazed at all that it can do if I take the time to learn about it. I bought mine in 1989. You just can't buy decent machines like this anymore, unless you buy the pre-1990 ones. Don't let go of it!
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