Do you name your sewing machine?
 

I attended a quilt guild workshop last week and referred to my sewing machine by name - her name is Lovely - and the instructor seemed really surprised and it spurred a conversation in the class. Do you name your sewing machine? Do you have a name for other things? Your car? Just wondering if I've gone a little over the edge. . . . BTW, my cars' name is Tux, short for Tuxedo . . . .

I don't name any of my machines, but, looks like lots do!!

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Quilla, Jean, Trudy, and Auntie Em are my machines and Pearl is my car.

I'm not into giving names to tools and inanimate objects. I use names for animals and people. Hmm, should I pull out all my scissors and start naming them? Will they respond when I call? Will I get their names mixed up and cause hurt feelings?

NOPE, I refer to it as my Bernina which is the company that manufactured it.

yep, a few of my machines have names.
Singer 201-2, Elizabeth
Brother FZ2 Pacesetter, Richard
Universal 15 clone, Orphan Annie
Singer FW, Margaret
Brother and Morse twin 15 clones, Thing 1 and Thing 2
my Grands call my embroidery machines Grammas Magic Machines.

Cari

well I only have one (at least for now) and I do call mine "Momma" don't know what... I just do :)

Husqvarna 895Q = Sweet Sapphire

1965 Elna Supermatic SU = Old Faithful

Today I do all my quilt sewing on Sweet Sapphire but my Swiss made, all metal Old Faithful is there for heavy duty sewing I don't want near my computerized machine.

Think sail boat cr*p ........ :o[h=3][/h]

Mine doesn't have a name but I have been known to call it something (not nice) from time to time.

I don't give any inanimate object a name.

I have Sadie and Fern and are sometimes referred as members of the male canine species mothers. Not to often but sometimes.

Me either.

Umm let's see....Abby, Myrtle, Little Girl, Juke, Big Green, Little Green, Betsy, yep guess that would be naming them... (a few are just the Singers, sergers, and embroidery machines, they don't have names)..LOL

I have never named a machine before (of any type - oh, except Rover, my Roomba vacuum). But for some reason the Bernina that just came home with me a couple of weeks ago became Bernie immediately. Not very creative, am I?

Me either. I've never understood why people do that. Plus there's the confusion factor when you are in a conversation with someone else and refer to a machine by a name other than the brand name, as the OP brought up.

We don't name "things"--with one exception--we do call our "Garmin" by a name, but as a joke, since "she" is always telling us where to go/which way to turn.

Oh, yeah! My Juki f600 is Juju, my Juki 2010q is Trixie Belle, my Singer 201 is My Sharona, and the 15 Japanese clone we picked up today was just named Cloe. I named my plants, too. LOL!

No unless you want to call "new machine", "old machine" names

my FW is named Aunt Betty Lou after my next door neighbor who inspired me and taught me hand sewing at the age of 3 or 4. she had me sew buttons to fabric and i could keep any one i sewed down.

Gale...
Exactly what I was thinking!

I have tried but it just does't seem to stick.

Same here.

I have named my latest machine, but I never named any of my machines before that. My new(ish) Janome's name is Gracey Lou Freebush, after Sandra Bullock's pageant character in Miss Congeniality.

Not my SM but all my cars/trucks..Betsy 1 and 2, Junie B and currently Lucille.. Next truck if I ever find one I can afford will be Maggie May.

I have a farm and in my younger years raised cows, horses, pigs and chickens. I was told never to name the animals or you could never eat them. But my children, the little animal tenders that they were, named them. One was "Dotty", the kids favorite pig. I worried and worried, but the day our slaughter pigs came back from the butcher, as we were hauling the packages to the freezer, My 10 year old daughter asked if we could cook some sausage. Sure, so we cooked and hauled and I continued to worry, until I heard a little voice from the kitchen, " Mmm, Mmmm, Dotty you sure taste good". I don't pay a lot of attention to rules anymore. That is why I quilt. LOL

To me it seems a silly waste of brain cells to name inanimate objects. I can barely keep all my friends' names straight, and their husbands, kids, grandkids, etc. Plenty of names to remember already.

I have 3 Singer Featherweights named Betty, Bubbles and Maud. I have another old Singer named Robin, but I don't have names for my newer machines. I guess they don't have enough personality for names. ;-)

One machine is Bessie the other is Betty Sue

I don't intentionally name my machines. But if I say I'll sew in the dining room my dogs go and lie down by a machine in there. Change name of room and they go there. I do call them unrepeatable names in my head sometimes.

My machine does not have a name. I've never named my vehicles either. My brother named his car years ago....& I'm talking "YEARS AGO"...:) He named it The Green Goose because it was green & he was always honking the horn at friends. Back then you heard more horns honking at friends than as alerts. There was no road rage in the late 50's.

There are days I have trouble remembering my own name, much less a sewing machine's.

Naming sewing machines seems as silly to me as men naming their...well, never mind...

I'm in this category

On the other hand I have quite a bit of bling on my machines, and had flames on one just above the needle.
If it makes us happy what else matters?

No, mine are called: The VX560, The PC420, The Featherweight and The PQ1500s when I refer to them. I hope they don't take it personally....

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Always!

Hugs

Caroline

I have a name for all of my vintage machines but not the computerized one's. Especially if the person who owned it previously is someone that I knew, or if the date of manufacture has special significance, it's kind of a tribute to them.

I have "Big momma" my janome 9500, Silvie my Singer 15, Matilda another Singer , then there are the twins Opal and Esther the 301's. Mr T the treadle, and a few others. We have names for our vehicles too, We appreciate it that have served us and keep serving us and find value in naming them I guess.

If mine had a name, it would be a bad name since I'm mad at it a lot. We always name our cars.