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What's our best Craigslist score? Made mine today
birdmcfarland Intermediate PA USA Member since 8/1/08 Posts: 932	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 8/12/12 2:30 PM Im moving my sewing room from the musty, spidery basement up to the attic which will leave me with no workbenches. This morning I found a 4x6 drafting table and filing cabinet (for patterns) on craigslist for $25 each! I am so excited to finally have a proper workspace and to have to work in the dank dungeon anymore! Craigslist made my day. -- Edited on 8/12/12 2:32 PM --
birdmcfarland Intermediate PA USA Member since 8/1/08 Posts: 932	Login to reply to this post Like this post Subject: Whats our best Craigslist score? Date: 8/12/12 2:30 PM The title was supposed to be "your" not "our". iPad keyboard stinks.
PattiAnnJ   Advanced OH USA Member since 12/3/06 Posts: 5223	Login to reply to this post In reply to birdmcfarland << 1 member likes this. Date: 8/12/12 2:39 PM Our sounded ok to me... I looked! < that's my usual mode! ------ “I don’t give them Hell, I just tell the truth about them and they think it’s Hell.” — Harry Truman
blue mooney Intermediate TX USA Member since 12/21/02 Posts: 1741	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 8/12/12 4:01 PM Congratulations on your finds! I have gotten some super stuff off of Craigslist that's also drafting related. Actually, it's the Spouse who keeps an eye on Craigslist and alerts me when he sees something he thinks I'll want. My two favorites: A light table, 2' x 4', originally for viewing x-rays and such. Great tracing table for me. The other one was a set of flat files: total of 25 drawers capable of holding 36 x 48 sheets of paper. Yowsa! We paid $100 for each item, a teeeeeeeny fraction of what they would have cost new. -- Edited on 8/12/12 4:01 PM -- ------ --Robyn sewing blog: http://bluemooney.wordpress.com/ illustration blog: http://storybooky.wordpress.com/
Member since 12/31/69	Login to reply to this post Like this post Subject: Whats our best Craigslist score? Date: 8/12/12 4:22 PM I got a closeout of about 1000 yards of fabric from a custom dressmaker's ex wife-for free. Silks, italian shirting; he was quite the high dollar guy. Clothed me and the boy for several years. And it was nice stuff, far better then I can afford to buy today.
carolhope Advanced MA USA Member since 3/7/06 Posts: 109	Login to reply to this post In reply to birdmcfarland << Like this post Date: 8/12/12 6:28 PM I got a Singer "Rocketeer" for $100 that is in perfect condition. It came in a French Provincial cabinet that, when closed, makes a nice bedroom table. It will be perfect for my DGD when she is a little older.
birdmcfarland Intermediate PA USA Member since 8/1/08 Posts: 932	Login to reply to this post In reply to 0 << Like this post Date: 8/12/12 6:52 PM Quote: Sew Ducky I got a closeout of about 1000 yards of fabric from a custom dressmaker's ex wife-for free. Silks, italian shirting; he was quite the high dollar guy. Clothed me and the boy for several years. And it was nice stuff, far better then I can afford to buy today. That is unbelievable
sewingsilly Expert/Couture FL USA Member since 1/29/10 Posts: 802	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 8/12/12 7:12 PM I just scored a fold down sewing cabinet with storage for $40.00. I also scored industrial sized cones of wooly nylon for .10 cents a piece. I got 26 colors different colors, 4 cones each. I'd say that's a "lifetime" supply. ------ strikesmyfancy-2013.blogspot.com What's Meant for You Won't Pass You By.
minggiddylooloo   Intermediate VA USA Member since 5/17/05 Posts: 1797	Login to reply to this post Like this post Subject: Whats our best Craigslist score? Date: 8/12/12 9:48 PM I think Sew Ducky wins with her fabric windfall. ------ I'm finally a blogger! sewming.blogspot.com
lisalu Advanced Beginner GA USA Member since 10/5/08 Posts: 1810	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 8/12/12 10:06 PM Oh, I love this topic. I have gotten a number of CL "scores", but I'd have to narrow the winners down to a tie. 1. 1954 Singer Featherweight in nearly perfect condition - with case also in nearly perfect condition, full set of accessories and the original blue manual. $75 2. 1949 Singer 201 in #40 cabinet with stool - complete with accessories and original manual - in excellent condition. Also included a buttonholer, electric scissors and lots of other goodies. $80 The runner up would be my 1980's Babylock serger including accessories and manual in excellent condition for $50. It isn't as glamorous and exciting as the other two finds, but every time I use it I think to myself, "This was the best $50 I ever spent!" PS... I *heart* Craigslist! -- Edited on 8/12/12 10:08 PM -- ------ Margaret (Singer 201-2), Betty (Singer 15-91), Bud (Singer 503), Kathy (Singer 221), Liz (Singer 221 Centennial Edition) http://runningstitches-mkb.blogspot.com/

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