One Sewing Machine to Rule Them All

Frankly, this sewing machine is the icon of my life. If my life was an object, it would be this sewing machine. It's as simple as that. I guess if you have a hard time relating to this, it is similar to when you see a dress in the store and it speaks to you and you say back, "I think this dress is my soul." This is my soul-mate machine. It is my metal child. My kindred spirit as Anne of Green Gables would say.

This is an antique replica that I got from a local sew and vac (J&M Vac and Sew represent!) It is set in what I believe is an original early 1900s sewing table with a manual foot pedal. I immediately connected with this machine when I walked in the store. It was intense. It was a spiritual experience for me. It was exactly what I was looking for. And to make it's appearance in my life even more serendipitious, I was the only one who could operate it easily. I mean the people in the store who were teaching me how to use it were very knowledgeable but they didn't have the calf muscles of a dancer to operate the pedal like me. I mean, not to toot my own horn but...yea no, I'm obviously bragging here and there's no way out of it.

Anyway, moral of the story, this machine was a pivotal moment in my life because suddenly all the sewing projects I had stored in my head became possible and what followed was an avalanche of creative output and yes, I felt a little bit like Anne of Green Gables right there again.