New Machine!
Backstory: Grandma let me use her Pfaff Tipmatic 6122 (the best contemporary machine made, as far as I'm concerned, since it is a high-end, non-computerized Pfaff) every winter while she was in Florida. In November, she moved to Florida full time and brought the Pfaff with her permanently. Sad blue.
I decided that I simply could not get by without a comparable machine. I wanted a 6122, but had previously established that they were discontinued and no longer really available, and at the time (when I'd been asked to choose a graduation present), Pfaff did not make anything non-computerized (or at least Quality Sew & Vac didn't carry anything non-computerized). They now make the non-computerized Selectric line, of which the 8.0 seems comperable to the 6122, but now I do not have a graduation present waiting in the wings and the price tag is rather out of my budget.
So. I have been watching eBay for six months or so. I decided that I didn't want to spend over $500, and so have been outbid on the four or five complete machines that have been sold on eBay in that time, or didn't meet the reserve price, or lost because I forgot about re-checking right before the auction ended, and so on. This has been discouraging to my sewing habits, since the next project in the queue is more collared shirts and I really can't make them right without the fancy edge-stitch feet that Pfaff offers (and my bargain "commercial" singer has a plain shaft or whatever the one is called that can only accomodate three lame presser feet).
Then, Monday, a 6122 came up for sale. It was up for auction starting at $330, or $435 buy-it-now, which I figured was doable. Then I realized it was Austrailian dollars, making the buy-it-now $281 American. I contacted the seller and asked for a shipping estimate -- $111 AU, or about $72 US. I bought it immediately, for $547 AU or $354 US. w00t! I will have to think up a suitable name.
I am so very excited I cannot contain myself. More evidence to back up the virtues of patience and tenacity. Of course, it is being shipped by sea, so I will continue to practice patience for however long it takes to arrive. It is a good thing that is time to get the garden ready for spring, or I might die from anticipation.
I decided that I simply could not get by without a comparable machine. I wanted a 6122, but had previously established that they were discontinued and no longer really available, and at the time (when I'd been asked to choose a graduation present), Pfaff did not make anything non-computerized (or at least Quality Sew & Vac didn't carry anything non-computerized). They now make the non-computerized Selectric line, of which the 8.0 seems comperable to the 6122, but now I do not have a graduation present waiting in the wings and the price tag is rather out of my budget.
So. I have been watching eBay for six months or so. I decided that I didn't want to spend over $500, and so have been outbid on the four or five complete machines that have been sold on eBay in that time, or didn't meet the reserve price, or lost because I forgot about re-checking right before the auction ended, and so on. This has been discouraging to my sewing habits, since the next project in the queue is more collared shirts and I really can't make them right without the fancy edge-stitch feet that Pfaff offers (and my bargain "commercial" singer has a plain shaft or whatever the one is called that can only accomodate three lame presser feet).
Then, Monday, a 6122 came up for sale. It was up for auction starting at $330, or $435 buy-it-now, which I figured was doable. Then I realized it was Austrailian dollars, making the buy-it-now $281 American. I contacted the seller and asked for a shipping estimate -- $111 AU, or about $72 US. I bought it immediately, for $547 AU or $354 US. w00t! I will have to think up a suitable name.
I am so very excited I cannot contain myself. More evidence to back up the virtues of patience and tenacity. Of course, it is being shipped by sea, so I will continue to practice patience for however long it takes to arrive. It is a good thing that is time to get the garden ready for spring, or I might die from anticipation.