A Surprise Find And A Knitter's Worst Nightmare.
So, you know that buy-nothing goal of mine? Um, yeah...... Out of morbid curiosity, I often browse Ebay looking to see how many embroidery machines like mine are up for sale. If I can get parts for mine, I think mine could last another 10 years or more--but the problem is that there's no telling how long they'll be available. So, I keep an eye out for the embroidery cards and/or the reader/writer I use to transfer designs to my machine. The last writable card I bought was in a clearance basket (though still insanely expensive considering how little support the old machines get), so you can see why I worry. So, before we left for Indiana, there were several cards on Ebay. Usually I don't bother with the ones with designs already on them, because they're still REALLY expensive and I'm not interested enough in the designs. But there was an unused writable card which wasn't going for much, and a lace card with maybe a $10 bid. I thou...