The journey from fat to fit. Road trip, woo hoo!

I would love to find a free hobby, something fun that doesn’t cost money.  I’m taking a sewing class and love it.  I am using an old 70’s era machine.  I took the machine to class and used it and it was fine, works great actually.  I had sewing homework to do, so I set up the machine on a card table and SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE it’s impossible to use because the table rattles and shakes when I use the machine.  I didn’t want to set it up on the dining room table, because I want to have a space to keep it set up and be able to use it, not have to pack it up and set it up every time.

So, of course, I need a sewing table. 

Saturday morning I wake up to lots of ruckus and look outside to investigate.  There’s a huge garage sale going on across the street.  In an empty house.  The house has been empty, like gutted empty, for over a year.  There was no stuff left in the house, I know, I’ve been inside.  So where the hell all of this stuff came from, I have no idea, but HUGE garage sale with appliances and furniture and general garage sale crap.

In the back room of the house, the’ve got a sewing machine in a sewing machine cabinet/table thing.  I need this!  Perfect!  I ask how much, the guy wants $125.  Uh, hello, I found 10 of them on Craigslist for $50 or less, but don’t want to have to go pick it up across town.  So I offter $50, but no deal.

I went back this morning and he took my $50, so now I have two sewing machines!  Yay for two, because MORE is always BETTER, right?  I don’t even know if this machine works, haven’t even plugged it in.  I basically just want to pop it out of the table and put my sewing machine in the table, after I give it all a good cleaning.  And the drawers of the table are filled with sewing stuff… I don’t know what half of it is, but it’s all very sewy and crafty and vintage.

I looked up the machine on the Singer web site and according to the serial number it was manufactured in 1969.  Is that an antique?  I hope not because I was made in 1966 and hopefully am not an antique yet.

I also purchased this weekend a groovy sewing bag and fabric to make a case to put sewing stuff in for inside of the bag because the sewing bag really isn’t a sewing bag, just a tote bag, and doesn’t have lots of cool pockets inside for scissors and tape measures and things like that. 

So my sewing adventure total to date, not counting the original sewing machine since I bought that years ago: Class $40; Class supplies $36; New sewing bag $30; Supplies to make an accessories case, $18; Second sewing machine and table $50.  I am not even going to add this up.