Treasure!!

Look at these two cases-

They were way up on a shelf in the closet of my mother's sewing room. She died in March of ovarian cancer and I had to clean out her sewing room. I never looked in these boxes because they were hard to reach and I thought they had record stuff in them--they were above a bunch of records in the closet.

Yesterday I looked up at them and thought the gold one seemed a 1950's type of box. There was no light in the closet; the house is too old for that. So I had my husband get them down. Wow! Look what was inside-
I opened the black (navy?) one first--Sewing machine attachments! My husband put the gold one on a table, opened it, and said, "Look."

There was a box with my name on it in mom's handwriting. I put away an attachment I was holding before walking over to see what was in the box. My husband already had it open and had an odd look on his face. He said, "How did she know?" and tilted the box to show me what was in it. The manual to a Singer 15-91 and some attachments to it.

The weird thing is...mom didn't have a 15-91. She had a Singer 404 slant shank from the 50's, a Singer 201 from an estate sale that she never plugged in, and a few other machines that weren't Singers. But remember what I bought about four weeks ago? Two Singer 15-91s. One from the Goodwill and one from a craig's list ad. It's almost as if she knew I would need that manual and the attachments. Is that not really weird?

In fact, all of the attachments are low shank. The black box, I found out, is a Featherweight attachment case. Together they contained: the 15-91 manual, a 201 manual, two buttonholers (one in a case with instructions and templates, the other one is old), a zizzag attachment (complete) with instructions, hemstitcher (complete with instructions), two pinking attachments with instructions, two tucker feet, ruffler, two binders, two adjustable hemmers, foot hemmer, seam guide, right toe cording foot, quilter, edger, and lots of screws that I have to figure out what they go with. It's like Christmas.