Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Sewing machine score

A lady at my quilt class on Monday gave us the name and number of a man who was selling all the fabrics, yarn, thread, etc from his mother's life long hobby. she could no longer  work at it and they were cleaning out the house.

I went over there and scooped up all the goodies.   14 boxes and 7 large black trash bags worth of stuff. fabric, yarn, thread, lace, patterns, magazines, etc, etc.

Then he said he had sewing machines to sell, too. the first i looked at was a Singer from the 50s in a nice cabinet but he wanted almost $200 for it and i didn't think it was that special.

Then he said he had another upstairs that i could look at. i fell in love with it at first glance. it looked very unusual. when you pull those 2 handles in the middle......


A chair comes out.....how cool is that.


And along with the chair having a nice padded seat....it also lifts up and has storage. all that stuff came with it. LOL   along with the 4 drawers being full of stuff.


The right side folds down...



And the left side folds down. needs a little dusting, huh? that blue line in the front is a measuring tape. i am assuming it was there when the cabinet was made. pretty cool.


Never heard of this brand of machine. Electro...something. can't read it quite. needs a bit of cleaning in the letters. all kinds of knobs and buttons to push. don't know if it works....don't care. don't have a book on it. gonna do some research on it.


When i asked how much he wanted....he said make him an offer. i offered $50....he said he would take $60....and it was mine. 

The whole back of my truck was filled with boxes and bags of stuff and this machine. but now i have to go out of town in the morning and can't play with it...

tomorrow


4 comments:

Jo C. said...

Electrolux? There's also a machine called electra. Lovely cabinet!

Lisa E said...

Yep, you scored, Shirley! I love finds like this. I know the man's mother will be happy that someone is going to love her treasures.

Nohemi said...

Hi, I been looking everywhere for information about this cabinet, found one last year and it came with a singer machine, I love it but will like to know something about the cabinet since I had never seen one like this before, really looked everywhere in the internet and this post is the only thing I have found, do you have more information? Thanks:)

Nohemi said...

After a little research on your machine is seems to be a Electro Hygiene from an old company in Dayton Ohio. Don't know if worth something nowadays though

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