sarah in nyc

This is my beloved sewing machine. I purchased it a few years ago when my Pfaff bit the dust.My go to brilliant sewing machine doctor, leon Speilvogel had moved his repair shop in the garment district, appropriately called "Garment Center Sewing" out to Brooklyn. Getting the machine to Leon was something of a problem which required either an expensive taxi ride or dislocating my funky shoulders from carrying the sewing machine. While I weighed my options I purchased  the inexpensive Janome as a stop gap measure. I ended up falling deeply in love with what was supposed to be a temporary fix. The Janome was in many ways just a better machine than the Pfaff which had cost several times more than the Pfaff.  Over the years several parts broke off. The stopper mechanism for the bobbin winder went early. While I was teaching a class the little tool box crashed to the ground so I hacked together a repair using Velcro. But the machine kept purring along, working as an exte...

Today, I took a new machine into my life. My friend Sara, was in the studio audience of the Rosie O’ Donnell. You can see her talking about it here. Sara had kept the machine in her apartment, unopened for the last four years. I bought the machine from Sara and brought it home this afternoon in my shopping cart. I decided to try out the machine on the ribbon I purchased for the Bein Gavra. This is what I ended up with. You can see what the ribbon looked like before I began. So now, I am completely ready to get rid of two sewing machines. The first is a 1973 Sears Kenmore Zig- Zag machine. It is a real work horse. You could probably drop it from my window on the 6th floor and it would survive the drop unscathed.  The other is an early 1990’s Pfaff. It’s a wonderful machine but it needs a new motor. I can also send you the the sewing machine repair genius. If you want either machine, let me know and name your price.