Who taught you to sew?
What frustrated you the most about your sewing machine?
What would make it easier to learn to sew?
What did you do to conquer the sewing machine?
What kept you going?
Where did you keep your sewing machine? Case or Cabinet?
When did you conquer the sewing machine?
How did you ever learn to quilt?
Did you use a straight stitch or zig zag sewing machine to learn to sew?
Were you a child or an adult when you learned to quilt?
Mostly myself
My mother had a Featherweight. I hated it.
Not having to make the junk they used as patterns in HS. I don't care for fashion. (Didn't care for the garbage they cooked, either.) Would have rather taken automotive repair. (I did learn that eventually. I had a Spitfire.)
Pfaff came out with the 1471. That meant I could program the machine to do what I wanted, including stitches. Then I got interested since I could find patterns I liked in thrift stores and ignore what fashion dictated.
I started with the 1471. Found a book on mini quilts that used a 1/8" seam. Not too much fabric to handle.
The FW was straight stitch, the Pfaff, programmable.
The machines are in cabinets.
Adult.
I refuse to be conventional. Taught daughter the same. One of her projects was a final for a Geology class. The professor said he was tired of the usual final projects. She decided to to an Isopatric map of the US as a wall hanging. I told her it could be appliqued and to go get my stash. We did get it done, I was able to get the map key printed on fabric - she satin stitched the whole thing. It's hanging in the Science dept. of the college. The professor was floored. So was his wife, who was a quilter. Kid got an A.