It seems that Bette Boellstorff never met a sewing machine she didn’t like. Over more than 40 years of collecting, from ...

Have you got an old sewing machine at home, sitting gathering dust? As the saying goes, one man's trash is another man's treasure - and that is certainly the case for one Belfast-based charity.

Bette Boellstorff, right, and one of her daughters, Leslie Reed, work on a gift during a sewing retreat ... in Syracuse to sell off her collection, which now numbers around 270 machines, give ...