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In the last six or eight years, my wife has returned to sewing and quilting. She concentrates on a particular Singer model at the other end of their capacity spectrum. There are enough plants, models, years, variations, colours (yes!), accessories, and cases to make the head spin.

Like you sometimes fortune favours the bold. She has gotten good enough with the machines to now run clinics and teach simple projects on those machines. A lady arrived and unpacked her estate sale find. It was like she'd rode in on a unicorn. That $50 bargaining success has a free arm for doing cuffs and collars, and is the prize every Singer Featherweight collector hopes for. When she laid out the accessories, my wife said, 'if you've got a xxxxx, I'm going to throw up. Do you know how hard it is to find any of those?' No, but she won't sell it for $50 to the next owner!