Originally Posted by
MrsBoats
...and how many do you use?
Total Herd: 12
Used: 5
My wife and I have 44 in our home, and use 14 of them. (We have 10 at our shop, but only use 6 of them. The others are duplicates in case a machine gives us problems in the middle of a job.) Customer sewing is done mostly at the shop. We do our “fun sewing” at home, and have turned our living room and dining room into our main sewing room. The machines that we use at home are:
Her sewing work station (always set up to sew):
1956 Singer 301A LBOW
1960 Singer 401A
2000s Singer 14U554 Serger
2001 White W3300 Embroidery Machine (Bought new)
1990 JC Penney 7057 (Freearm) (Bought new)
Her portables (ready to go):
1952 Singer 221 Feather Weight
1970s Singer 353B Genie
1959 Singer 404 (My Grandma’s 2nd machine - Bought new.)
His sewing workstation:
1943 Singer 29K70 Industrial
1906 White VS III Treadle (My Grandma’s 1st machine, a used Wedding Gift in 1928.)
His portables (ready to go):
1914 Singer 66-1 HC
1948 Singer 201K4 HC
1957 Singer 221 Feather Weight HC
1910 Singer 28K2 HC
(I do most of my sewing outside on the patio, and as you can see, I like hand cranks.)
My Mother has her one and only machine, a 1956 Singer 301A LBOW in her room. (Bought new)
I don’t know what the average age of all of our machines would be, but this list averages roughly 1955. Good old machines, and still going strong.
CD in Oklahoma