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Posted on: 5/31/10 6:29 AM ET
Well, try as I might I've seen one & tried & tried to ignore her. I do NOT need this pretty girl. But the graphics of her, being made in good old USA in hubby's home town even. ...She will not leave me alone....I have limited space for these sewing girls.......So anyone have one ? Like it, Don't like it? What???
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Posted on: 5/31/10 9:33 AM ET
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That was the machine I learned to sew on as a young girl and it sewed a beautiful stitch. Mom sewed all our clothes, coats, drapes and I don't remember complaints about the machine. She got a Singer after that one and had nothing but compliants. The Westinghouse was a plain stitch machine but did it well.
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Posted on: 5/31/10 9:50 AM ET
She's free AND she's pretty. I say go for it. She's calling your name
  
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Posted on: 5/31/10 9:32 PM ET
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Was the one your Mom had the aqua & cream straight stitch? Or the aqua & cream straight with zig zag stitch? Or the bronze color rotary Free Westinghouse? ....The ones I like is the aqua with cream & Statue of Liberty on its base. ...OOOOHHHHH...Ahhhhh!!! Which one do you remember sewing sew well please? Thank you.


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Posted on: 5/31/10 9:59 PM ET
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Here is a picture of one that looked like the machine I had growing up
I've seen old black ones but never a aqua and cream! What does the one look like you saw? We lived in MN at the time so maybe it's my mom's old machine HA-HA!!! Made my first marble bag on that machine then one for all my friends in the neighborhood!
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Posted on: 5/31/10 10:05 PM ET
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Oh that is the bronze color rotary one. The aqua & cream looks more similar in style to a Singer 500...though not a slant needle...just regular low shank foot. Do you have the Free Westinghouse now that your Mom had? The one in the photo posted is very nice looking. There is one on E-bay just like it in a case though not a cabinet.
I am not sure what to do....I like it, I REALLY like her....BUT I Do NOT need her.....hubby says what are you going to do with her..just sit & look at it?....NO she would go to work just like the other sewing girls!
Did you know the sm was made in Rockford, ILL? Priceless info on the web for the Free Westinghouse history.


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Posted on: 6/1/10 0:08 AM ET
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That machine was traded in when she got her Singer but it was a really good machine.
When I collected older machines I would spend evenings just cleaning, playing, investigating, much better than going out and getting in trouble! Probably cheaper in the long run. You can learn a lot from these older machines and they are gems to have.
If the price is right....go for it, why not

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Posted on: 6/1/10 7:18 AM ET
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Did you ever have a FW bronze sm again for yourself? It is also a pretty neat sm! Looks nice & sturdy...one on E-bay even has bottonholer ...(urgh took me 3 tries to type button...I need coffee).
I bet your Mom wished she had kept it after being disappointed in the Singer upgrade. That seems to happen fairly often.
Hmmm....I just looked at that bronze/gold FW she is a beauty! Ut oh I think I like her too. Very clean, shiny, well taken care of ..lots of accessories. Very sweet looking/regal even...sense of elegant simplicity to her.

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Posted on: 6/1/10 8:00 AM ET
go for it-you will hate yourself for not getting it. You will end up using it. Its very satisfying to get one of those old machines up and running and know that it won't let you down. And its also rewarding to work with something that looks like a piece of art.
  
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Posted on: 6/1/10 10:00 AM ET
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I never owned one but when ever I see them it brings back memories. I used to have thrift stores all around me in the Minneapolis area and "OH" could you find some cool machines. It was a lot of fun, had 4 301's, a 201, just to mention a few I found at the thrift stores. I found another 201 and had my girlfriend pick that up. If I would have found a FWestinghouse it would be gone. I sold most of my machines when we moved, space and I was done playing with them. Can only use so many machines at one time and I went overboard. I had more fun finding them, cleaning them up, figuring out how to make them stitch and then re-selling. Pretty much broke even but hubby worked nights and I kept busy!!!
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