I learned to sew at an early age on my Mom's treadle Singer. She had it a cabinet with the drawers to one side of it. We lost all of our belongings in a house fire when I was about 12 yrs. old. So that was the end of the old treadle machine. But lo & behold after the ashes cooled so we could dig and search we found some of the silver dollars that my Mom had stashed in the drawers of her sewing cabinet.
My first machine of my own was a Dressmaker won by doing a puzzle...just like Candlequilter! Then in a few years I graduated to a Singer. I have had several different machines since then, a New Home and a Viking. Then finally a Baby Lock Esante (I still have it) and my favorite one that I use the most is a Bernina 160. I do all my quilting on it. The Baby Lock has the embroidery attachment that I haven't used in quite some time but reading things on this board makes me think I should get back to using that more!
Linda aka Kitsapquilter