This is a find! Someone's grandma had this in her attic or something, and grandma has gone to her Reward, so here is the foot-treadle sewing machine she had and used for decades, and it's marked at only 150 euros! It's for sale in my neighborhood outside Paris, France, and I can get it for you and have it shipped anywhere in the world! This is great! Look, it's got the wooden box top, so you can store it and keep it dust-free when you don't need it! It has been kept in perfect working order -- even the belt is supple and ready to rock 'n' roll! This will work anywhere in the world, people, and you can use it and sew away to your heart's content! I did learn sewing back in the early 1970s in junior high school, thanks to Mrs. Adornetto, and i got an "A" for the course, but sewing has just never really been my bag. It's a useful thing to know, and I actually CAN buy a pattern and select fabric and follow the instructions and make stuff, I am just really not that interested in doing it myself, is all. (I do make lace -- contact me if you want to buy any. I specialize in the simple, pretty decorative edgings you can sew onto a collar, or sleeves, or a handkerchief border, or a pillowcase border. It is called "tatting," and my father learned how to do it among the Pennsy Dutch women in his family when he was a boy in Ohio in the Great Depression and all. He encouraged me to learn it, and I did. I never could master the complex loops and lah-di-dahs he could do, but I make a ...
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