A Fair question
 

I was at our County Fair with my daughter and GS. We were looking at the booth of the local sewing machine store. They had the Hello Kitty machines there. And my GS said ," do they make sewing machines with boy pictures on them?" And I too wondered why they don't , maybe more boys would like to sew on a race car machine. or if they made decals to just stick on a plain machine that would be great.

I ran into that problem last Christmas when my GS asked for a sewing machine. I found one that was in my budget, but it was pink and purple, very girly. I decided to wait.

You could add those flame decals for him.

Even as a little girl, I would have hated a pink and purple machine! :rolleyes:

me too! Pink is not for me!

I don't buy kids machines - they sew on my Berninas - I want them to have a good experience sewing on a really good machine!

I agree, let them sew with good tools and the will learn correctly and not be frustrated or limited.

I have to agree. the pink and purple, miss killy machine are cute. what dose that have to do with giveing the kids a good sewing experience for the first time sewing. If it is fun and a good experience they will be back. if the machine is cute but don't work well, the cute is they but the fun is NOT. so I say put the money in to a machine that will work and grow with them, and they love for sewing will grow to. I have four grown son all of whom watch me sew all they lifes and have sew small thing for them self. one dose most of sewing for his family and the youngs is think of gone into upholster work. And I can tall you there was not cute little toy/boy sewing machine around.

I guess you would have to decorate a plain machine yourself.

I learned to sew on a singer treadle. It wasn't decorated and I didn't care, it was fun learning to sew.

I think that if they want to sew, just get them started on something that works well and something that is not limited. When my niece comes over and wants to sew, she always cleans the machine first after asking the last time used. She's become a pro at cleaning at 8 years old. She gets the manual out to make sure everything is set up the way she wants. She is constantly supervised of course. She also gets on YouTube to check out the different tutorials.

Found a pale blue 15 clone and gave that to my DGS. Good machine, simple, reliable.

They have quite a few brother machines with blue in them, low end brothers are great starter machines the XL-2600i is a blue machine and a consumer best buy, you can find them for a little over a hundred. I have the XL-3500i that I just dug out the other day and it still sews very well. My 3500i is a light blue machine. I love blue

I bought my Grandson a garage sale machine with a cabinet for $20. He learned to make fleece quilts 3 X-mas' ago for everyone in the family. Anyway, he tricked out his machine with 'rub ons' of skate boards and his favorite skate board dudes that do the awesome tricks. His machine truly is 'his', now. He was 12 when he learned to sew, and still, 3 years later still sews and fixes clothing and sews patches on his bowling quilt, too.

If Mom would have bought me a pink machine I would have never used it until after I turned my little brother loose on it with some spray paint-markers or what ever to make it ""cool'' Pink is still a color I dislike. The only pink you will find in my house is the little bit of bright pink in my tye-dyed T-Shirts.

I love pink and purple. Wouldn't bother me if my sewing machines were that color.
Just buy him a white colored machine.

I taught my DGS to sew two summers ago on my Bernina. Last Black Friday, he bought himself a cheap machine. I had his grandmother's (DH's wonderful first wife) Elna from the '70's so I gave it to him over this past spring break. He made a lap quilt while we were there which I took it to my longarmer. When he came this summer for his vacation, we bound it and he wanted to piece a bigger quilt. That one now needs to go to the longarmer. He LOVES his Nana's machine! Maybe it would have mattered if it was a girly color but I don't think so. He LOVES to sew!

I'm with you, Nammie, my DGDs all have had to opportunity to sew on my Bernina. A good vintage or antique machine could do, also.

What is wrong with the plain white or cream color machines?? It would be very expenive for machine manufacturers to produce "male" themed machines. Too small of a marketing niche. What color woud it be? Blue is rarely used for boys In baby quilts! Get some decals.

Nice to hear that boys want to learn to sew!!

Sandy