Stop the Chase

After years of chasing sewing machine pedals across concrete or laminate floors, the solution hit me: Use a computer mouse pad! It works under the old metal pedal of my Pfaff 130 as well as the larger plastic pedal of my Viking Sapphire.

—Tink Linhart

Grafton, Wisconsin

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