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 have one machine that I use for pretty much everything. It is my Janome. I have a Brother from Walmart that I rarely use. And then there are my vintage machines. I have 8 of them. :mrgreen: Two are treadles, two are in cabinets (one is my Rocketeer) and 4 are in carrying cases.

I only have one and that is an Elna.

i have 2, i use 2.
i don't have room for more..to much fabric and notions! :thumbup:

I have one but would love an embroidering machine - may have to save up for that

I have 3. One is an embroidery, rarely used. An Old singer from the high school that I attended, learned to sew on it many years ago. And one of my grandmothers sewing machines, i never use it. Now I'm looking for a serger and a mid to longarm. A gal can never have to many machines or fabric.

I have 4? I just sold one so I used to have more..

I have my sewing machine, a Janome 4900qc
an embroidery machine with a sewing features I'll only use if my machine goes in to service - a Brother 4500d
a serger that was given to me and has timing issues. I'll look at it someday. For now it is under the table taking up space.
I also have a Bailey 15" on a frame with a pcq that I have not used at all. If I don't make friends with it, I am going to sell it and clear out the space and just get a sit down machine and a big table lol. I am hoping to make friends with it though and more sooner than later.


I just recently sold my old faithful, a JC Penny machine that I bought in 1990. It was a fabulous old machine, that I bought new when I was in the service - it was really heavy, all metal and made by Singer when Singer was still good. It was hard to part with it but I really just never used it anymore and after getting the Brother 4500d, I felt that saving it as a back up machine was kind of silly.

I have 3/4 and another on the way. A Bernina 730E, so it does embroidery too, my older Bernina 1260 that I tend to piece on, a Featherwieight, new to me this summer, and intended more for taking to workshops, plus an overlocker.

The one on the way is an HQ16 Sit Down. I don't have room for a long arm as such - well, not the frame etc., but this new one will give me all the space to shove my quilts under it, and it's set in a table that measures 36in x 30in.

I am already used to FMQ, so that holds no terrors, and the other advantage will be the bigger bobbin - it holds 2 1/2 times more than a regular one. I can't wait for it to arrive.

Mostly I use my big elna, but have another elna, that I use for backup and a Morse that I occasionally use, I have 3 more in my sewing room and 3 older ones in cabinets in my little store room, but I'm not getting rid of any of them. LOL

Gee, we're not addicts or anything, right?? Fabric, machines, the list is endless!!
I have my Bernina QE, my Featherweight that I love piecing on and can keep it downstairs wherever I want to be, my first machine is a Kenmore 1040 that I don't use anymore but I love it, a Singer 301, for now that's all but I want all the old Singers I see!! lol