Janome 120

aren't little things cute

don't they call out to be taken home and loved?

last time I spotted a little sewing machine in a charity shop I resisted womanfuly.

Shortly after another blogger posted she had optimistically purchased a mini machine.

Pop over to finding flapjack to see that one.

And I wondered if I had let a good opportunity pass me by.

Later again one of the quilting group ladies bought something similar new hoping it would be one she could use (her daughter having borrowed hers on a mostly permanent basis) and that would be light enough to carry to church.

We could not get it to work properly, oh it stitched but the stitches just pulled back out , reminded me of a toy machine I had as a child that was equally useless for sewing stuff together.

I felt better for having resisted as the one I had seen looked more  like that one than the rounded mini marvel at finding flapjack.

So today there it was a little machine in the Alice House hospice shop.

This one had a name I knew from many a post on many a Facebook quilting page.

It had the pedal, it had the  power adaptor, two spare spools (and one in the machine) and a bobbin of Gutermann thread.

Should I?

It would be light enough to carry places.

you know I did it, bought it and indeed it was light as I carried it all the way home (in the snow).

It works just fine, it does straight stitches in four different sizes and three sizes of zig zag and the needle can be adjusted to the left.

I am happy with my purchase, it has a footprint smaller than a box of  man sized hankies. (now there is a size reference that has ceased to have relevance as the term is no longer in uses, since I originally posted this so I guess I shall have to make the effort and measure , so 16 by 31 centimetres is the size of the box of everyone sized hankies, I visualise better with things rather than measurements.  Which does not bode well for my quilting but I manage)

I see a project making a bag for it in my very near future.

Oh I almost forgot, it was £6 .

Chuffed!