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#83
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 187
Originally Posted by Bmanmommy
Sewing machines do you have that you regularly use? Since I am starting this major sewing room clean out (from my other post), it got me thinking, how many sewing machine should I keep. I hope to have a more dedicated sewing room in our next house but who knows how long that it could take to sell our place or where we are going to end up.
I currently have 3 and have access to 2 more if I have to take mine in for service. I am seriously contemplating getting rid of at least 1 of them, maybe both the extras. I never use either of them and they just sit and collect dust. Neither of them are anything special, just basic machines and then I have my piecing machine that I do use regularly...it isn't going anywhere.
So I ask, how many machines do you have that you regularly use and how many do you have that are dust catchers?
I currently have 3 and have access to 2 more if I have to take mine in for service. I am seriously contemplating getting rid of at least 1 of them, maybe both the extras. I never use either of them and they just sit and collect dust. Neither of them are anything special, just basic machines and then I have my piecing machine that I do use regularly...it isn't going anywhere.
So I ask, how many machines do you have that you regularly use and how many do you have that are dust catchers?
#84
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Beaverton,Michigan
Posts: 802
I have 3 at this time. My first machine my DH bought me right after we got married in 1980 Kenmore and an old Singer Futura 920 that his sister gave me a few years ago that hardly ever got used so I had it oiled and checked then it sat another 3 years before I started using it,it works great,then my DSIL just gave me an old ELNA TSP it runs really good,I oiled it and it sews really smooth. I don't use the Kenmore hardly at all. But I'm always on the look out for cheap machines.
#85
I have my 630 for embroidery and regular sewing. my Pfaff Expression 3 of which I absolutely love to use for all my basic and lots of piecing work and I'm just got a really priced Jenome 2010 that's light weight so I can take it to a friends house when doing regular quilter. Wish I knew how to do e-bay... My 430 has to be sold and I am seeing the same thing on e-bay, with out the bsr or the embroidery stuff and the starting price is extremely high and it has bidders on it. I have my serger Bernina, and I am still wanting to find a good home for that. buT at the time that I got these, there was enough not to get my budget in trouble and it was just about the only thing that I was able to actually do when I was able to actually get around. But since there has been an improvement in my ability to walk a bit more, I can at least join one or two friends for coffee and fabric and doing a new thing that one of us has picked up to show the other. I am the training ground. I cannot attend the quilds and the retreats so when one or both come back then it's "let's show Claire".. and I get the enjoyment that is so worth tripping over machines. The little light weight Jenome is a great little machine and seems to have a nice reputation as it is computerized and it's a great little quilter. Sorry.. been out of touch. One more thing, I am having a wonderful with the braid that is coming along and I have also gotten the very easy quilt laid out that one of group here pulled out with a bunch of charms. I am enoying it all for a change.
#88
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: North Texas
Posts: 1,011
well lets see, i have a singer that does everything from FMQ to embroadery(sp) it is a 403 slant special with all the cams and feet one needs to do about anything, it is a 1951, it was my moms. i have a FW. a singer touch and sew, a kenmore, and a couple in storage im not sure what they are. love the 403 bestest
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