Okay, now this might sound like yet another justification, but I HAD to buy a new New Machine. The old New machine went haunted. For real.

I hear a noise. I go down into the basement to see what’s up. The sewing machine is like, “Oh, what’s up you? Just down here sewing some invisible stuff while you watch Office reruns.”

It has obviously been sewing on it’s own down there for quite awhile, because its light was glowing an exhausted yellow orange and there was a wad of bobbin thread the size of a marble under the plate. The needle had said “hellz naw” a long time ago and along with the pin that tightens it, had worked itself loose and made it as far as the floor beneath the sewing table before I intervened.

I know what you are thinking, and I did indeed check for industrious singing mice and elves hungry to be paid in first born children. Nada. All I had was one haunted machine in the midst of a major crisis.

So I was pretty much screwed at this point. It’s my main machine. I have loaned out the old Old Machine to someone else, all I have is this lunatic; unreliable at best and possessed by demons at worst. Maker Faire is looming at the end of July, I can’t put this thing in the shop and there’s no getting Stephen King’s ass on the line when you have a demon possessed piece of machinery.

And then I saw it. IT. This gorgeous piece of aqua steel, refurbished by a very nice French Canadian man in Québec. Angels purred. Milk turned to honey turned to wine turned to Newcastle. Fireworks went off in parts my brain that are only dimly lit by 2 watt bulbs any other time. I had to have it. Look at it….I don’t really think I need to explain. At least if this beautiful thing goes haunted there’s a pretty good chance that it’s haunted by some kick ass lady in kid gloves and pill box hat, who is just basically coming back to let me know it’s really not ladylike to sew skulls onto handbags.

I’m thinking being haunted by whoever owned something this amazing, is going to result in some pretty cool stuff. At least until the next new machine comes along.