July 17th, 2010 by Overallgirl

6 months ago I owned two sewing machines- my lovely ebay find Viking Husqvarna Quilt Designer and my very first sewing machine, a White Jeans Machine given to me by my mom as a wedding gift kept as a keepsake and backup.  I now own twelve.  I couldn’t turn down the free Janome 1600p offered to me by my midwife so that made three.  I rationalized that it’s sheer ability for speed would make some of my sewing and quilting projects much faster and I would make better use of my time.  The other nine….well I’ve got into my head that I may try my hand at teaching quilting classes.  I’m hoping to get the very first class started soon- just a trial class really with friends- they get to have a chance to learn how to make a quilt, and I get to practice teaching (poor dear friends…this could prove to be really boring or unintelligible on my part).

NO I didn’t pay for the other 9 machines.  Hello- FREECYCLE people! The neat part about the seven machines you see in the photo below is that they come from Tennyson High School- a retiring Home Ec teacher contacted me after seeing my want ad and allowed me to come and rummage around in the attic her classroom- these Brothers are all exactly the same, which will prove wonderful for teaching  a group how to use a sewing machine.  I just finished spending several hours opening them all up; oiling and de-dusting.  They are good to go now, I hope.