"Honey" is HOME!!
09-21-2010, 08:15 PM
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Honey looks just like my Maggie, born in 1957, same age as me!
Have fun with your new toy!! I just took mine to my guild's quilt show and did 2 demos with her over 2 days. People were just amazed how little she is. Someone even asked if it was a toy.
Have fun with your new toy!! I just took mine to my guild's quilt show and did 2 demos with her over 2 days. People were just amazed how little she is. Someone even asked if it was a toy.
09-21-2010, 08:58 PM
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One of our friends saw her, and immediately asked the same thing..."You sure that's not a toy?"
Thing is...many of the really old "toy" machines were NOT toys...just like the featherweights!
One thing bothers me about this machine...it has one speed and that's full bore! There's no slow sewing on her... I don't remember Mama's machine being like that...it's not normal, is it?
Thing is...many of the really old "toy" machines were NOT toys...just like the featherweights!
One thing bothers me about this machine...it has one speed and that's full bore! There's no slow sewing on her... I don't remember Mama's machine being like that...it's not normal, is it?
09-21-2010, 10:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Charlee
One of our friends saw her, and immediately asked the same thing..."You sure that's not a toy?"
Thing is...many of the really old "toy" machines were NOT toys...just like the featherweights!
One thing bothers me about this machine...it has one speed and that's full bore! There's no slow sewing on her... I don't remember Mama's machine being like that...it's not normal, is it?
Thing is...many of the really old "toy" machines were NOT toys...just like the featherweights!
One thing bothers me about this machine...it has one speed and that's full bore! There's no slow sewing on her... I don't remember Mama's machine being like that...it's not normal, is it?
09-21-2010, 10:42 PM
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Wow! That looks very much like a machine my Mom bought when she was in college. She didn't have much money, she never had, but she felt she could not live without a sewing machine. She bought it for something like $7 a month. That was in oh the mid 50's like about '56. The best part is she still has it! I learned to sew on it and we still get it out for some things!
Do you have a manufacture date on your new baby?
Do you have a manufacture date on your new baby?
09-22-2010, 02:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Aunt Retta
Wow! That looks very much like a machine my Mom bought when she was in college. She didn't have much money, she never had, but she felt she could not live without a sewing machine. She bought it for something like $7 a month. That was in oh the mid 50's like about '56. The best part is she still has it! I learned to sew on it and we still get it out for some things!
Do you have a manufacture date on your new baby?
Do you have a manufacture date on your new baby?
09-22-2010, 04:29 AM
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:) Honey's serial number was commissioned on February 27, 1956...she's most likely a month or two older than I am, depending on when they actually manufactured that batch...my birthday is November...
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