Comments on: An old friend

By: jessica

jessica — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:20:58 +0000

You know, since this blog started I’ve always checked it daily and loved the content. Lately, the posts are futher and futher apart and I wonder if I should delete it from my bookmarks or if it will pick back up. It’s been almost a month… WHERE ARE YOU ANNIE?

By: Kerstin

Kerstin — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:34:15 +0000

Hello, just wanted to say hi, I loved my old Singer Machine in Germany, my Grandmom revised it from a manual to an electric sewing Maschine, so whenever i wanted to i could take the Motor off and did my sewing manualy. Too bad i didn’t bring it to the states with me I miss that Maschine. Later on my Mom bought me a newer Singer with all digital , and I had to leave that one at my sisters since we have over there 220V and here it is only110V. Hope everybody is in good health at your house, here in South Jersey the weather got very, very, very humid and 95 degrees. Have to do my Garden work in the early morning or late afternoon. Kerstin

By: pamela zimmerman

pamela zimmerman — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:14:59 +0000

Hi Annie,

I love your blog!

By: Tiff

Tiff — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:55:33 +0000

My machine is not that old. Only ten years or so. it’s been through several moves and is still kicking. I so want to get an embroidery machine! I’m hoping my hubby will let me get one soon!

By: Ruth

Ruth — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:43:46 +0000

I’ve only had one new machine in 40+ years of sewing that was really any good–an older. plainer, Dressmaker model that I used for years. My favorite is an old Singer ZigZag from the seventies that my grand mother bought new. She used it, her daughter used it, I used it, and my mother-in-law and sister-in-law all used it! It finally wore out. I tried to replace it once and got taken by an unscrupulous sewing machine company. I finally found another on ebay recently and I’m in heaven. The person I bought it from even had the embroidery cams just like the ones I gave away when my old machine died. Talk about a happy, happy woman now. In fact, the machine I’ve been using is an older one from a junk store that just needed a little timing to run right. There is nothing like an older machine you really love, especially when they do just what you need!

By: Susanna

Susanna — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:42:23 +0000

You adviced me a while ago to go with something older and hardier. You’re absolutely right! I’ve been so pleased with my old 731 Bernina. I love that I can flip open the top and peak inside, and it’s great cause my kids are always putting push pins in my machines…and with this, it’s not a big deal, I can get them out again. It’s been about a year and a half I bought it off ebay and it’s been my main machine ever since.

By: caroline

caroline — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:24:44 +0000

annie, your brain and my brain must be cousins! ikwym about needing some neatness and organization to be productive. loved your post today. the “rambling” about your sewing machine spoke to my heart.

i’m thinking that someday, when we next cruise down the east coast, i’d love to meet you and your family. hopefully, this idea is mutual, cause if you ever cruise “up” the east coast, y’all can stay at my house.

By: Aaron Neal

Aaron Neal — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:12:43 +0000

Old machines are great – it’s worth some effort to keep them working.

You’re a little younger than me, and your Dad is a little younger than my Dad, but our Grandparents and Great-grandparents probably work out to pretty close in age, and lived through the Great Depression. And they had a saying…

“Use it up; wear it out; make it do, or do without”.

Making an old machine work is certainly within that paradigm

Keep up the good work Annie, and please write more!