reading yesterday about some (lucky!) quilter who got a $5000 sewing machine (wow).
I was looking around my sewing room/computer room/guest room and came up with the following.
Sewing machine -Mom's cabinet Kenmore that was new when I was 7 or 8, (am 54 now). DH uses treadle in the living room.
Cassette boom box to listen to my Patsy Kline/Dinah Washington/Skeeter Davis tapes while sewing.
PC with Windows XP (new to me, used to have a W98 model). No connection between PC and sewing machine.
Printer, I am guessing about 1992 model?
Several pairs of scissors, never graduated to rotary cutter as we use mostly scraps.

Now I can't be the only one. fess up, who else will join me back in the 20th century?

I am there with you. Well kinda I have new computers but not top of the line just Walmart e machines.

My sewing room has a 5 year old Kenmore basic model no computer screen, a 1970-80's riccar and 2 treadles.
I have Quilt wizard on my computer that was like 30$ so I splurged for that lol ( and barely use it lol)

I have a couple of rulers and only 1 rotary cutter.

still using my original rotary cutter from the 80's.
i borrow my son's laptop, ...printer, what printer,(go to the public library for that). small cd player to listen to books while quilting,(borrowed from library). on the rotary cutter, i use blades forever, even if they skip, i just press harder and gover 2 or 3 times.

wow, you have 4 sewing machines in your sewing room?!
Mine is small so only one, but even so (sew) we manage to collect portables. At one time we had over a dozen, most we got free.
In my previous house (9 room colonial) I had a nice big sewing room that didn't have to double as anything else. I miss it sometimes. Now we are in a 4 room ranch w/cellar, things are a bit tight. I have to move the kitchen table if I need to baste a quilt.

well not quite. I only have 1 sewing machine set up and my treadles are down stairs.


Ohh yea and keep your printer cus hubby got me a new one for my birthday and I hate it. It runs out of ink so fast and if I run out of 1 color the whole printer stops working. Epson holds me hostage till I buy more of their overprices ink lol

I have new stuff and like to buy the new tools and books. But I have all of my old machines too. I have been thinking about selling them on Craigs list. They work really well but probably aren't worth much.

you would be surprised, I had a couple of old Pfaffs and sold them for over $100 each on ebay.
But the funniest story was about an old treadle we had - nothing special, junky cabinet, but it worked.
A guy called up, he was joining a commune and wanted to bring something everyone could use. You thought the hippies were just back in the 60's?? There is a new crop of them.
Here he comes with his hippie girlfriend (his mom drove them) - I don't think either of them had a bath in the last week, hair all "dreaded" out, clothes from the Sallie Ann -- it did my heart good to see them carrying on the old hippie tradition. They bought it and were happy to get it, but not as happy as we were to get it out of our cellar.

I am with you ptquilts. my computer is about six years, sewing machine 30yrs, scissors over fifteen, I have a rotary cutter but still use scissors most of the time. my room is also my grandchildrens bedroom when they come to stay the night,mu Mum stays there too,at Christmas,(not with the grandchildren !!!) she is 96yrs. So you are not alone.

I have a $79.00 Machine from Sears, only does straight or zigzag, but I did get the littlest Brother that does embroidery (SE350) for my birthday last year. my sewing room is also our office, our guest room and my scrapbooking room (I believe it's a 12x12 room). so I use the dining room table alot. we have a storage room under the house that I would love to convert but... You are not alone in the muli purposeing room or the older equipment, but it all works and thats what counts.

I used to use an iron that I thought of as my "new" iron (it was the newest one I had) looked at the fine print one day., it was made in 1970.
I do have a newer one now.

I'm right there with you , I have my two old sewing machines in
our Bedroom and everything in the way of my stash is in tubs in my bedroom closet, I'm still using the rotter cutter I have had for the last 9 years and sharpen them my self so have only brought one blade for it in the 9 years, all my material that is new has been given to me and all the rest is took apart clothing.
I still have only two rulers that I started out with 9 years ago.
So yes I don't have it all, but enjoy what I do have and make it work for me.. :D :D

I am lucky in that I have a 25x13 foot room. But it also has a daybed in it and is lined floor to ceiling with book shelves. (I always wanted a library and when we bought this house I claimed that room for that. (this was before I started quilting. So now I have a corner for my quilting, but I still have a large enough floor space to sandwich a king quilt. My only problem is that it hardly gets any natural light.

In my old (big) house we had a kitchen dining area but never put a dining table in it (just a kitchen table in the kitchen part) . So I had a big floor space to baste quilts on.
One time I had a dark, plaid wool quilt top on the floor, a visitor to the house walked on it - guess he thought it was a rug.

My 20 year old sewing machine ids in my bedroom. I do have a TV in there, and a roccker for when I want to read. Ihave the pattern cabinet that my husband made for me, plus the thread chest he made. I bought a new rotary cutter and a new ruler last month, and that is the only equipment I have bought for 20 years. What fabric I have is in the guest room closet or in a tub in the basement. I have a computer that is new, but it is in my kitchen. So yes, I might be called behind the times. LOL

people really have computers in their sewing rooms?

I"ve seen a lot of them in the pictures others have shown of their sewing room. I think a lot of the embroidery machines need them.

I have an extra laptop from work that's 4 years old. As the co. has grown I've grown from 1 laptop to 3 desktops. I do have my accounts payable on this as I try to keep personal stuff with me.

I "invested" in my Juki 98Q 2 years ago- to replace my 1973 Singer Touch N Sew, which now resides at my dd's.

My machine sits on a student desk from the 50s- I absolutely love it- the chair is smaller sized and perfect for me.

I've been collecting vintage sewing notions- sewing baskets, buttons, etc.

My machines are pretty new, but nothing fancy - a White ("Betty") and a Singer ("Sally") that have a few interesting stitches, but no computer screens on them. I do have an old Singer 66, but it is only for decoration. The computer is newer too, but only a $299 basic model - and is in a different room. They all work just fine for what I need them for!

Some embroidery machines require hookup to a computer.

But more probably they have the computer there so they can peek at this quilting forum as they go about their sewing!!!

Haven't room for it anywhere else in my little house.

Sorry I won't join you. I love my tech quilting tools from EQ7 to quilt books on my Kindle to quilt apps on my IPhone. The new quilting tools available now like the Go die cut machine are fun to use and do a great job. I feel if past quilters had the array of quilting supplies we have now they would never look back. I can only imagine what my DGD's quilting tools will be when she's my age!

Try Abacus 24/7.com. It's the cheapest place to get ink for printers, etc., and the service is quick. Jackie

My sentiments exactly! :)

I have a 9 year old laptop in my sewing room that I use for my embroidery designs.

You know if you want to you can print with less ink. When you are in the Print dialog box, go to Properties, Here you can lower your print quality from Normal to Fast Normal (colors are faded) or Fast draft (every thing gray scale). I use the lower print quality all the time.

I have a computer that has one of the latest video cards and it's almost as fast as the new ones out there now. It's a custom rig built for video gaming. With both computers in one room it gets warm quickly so there are 5 fans in the room and I have 6 fans in the tower itself and my husband has 5 in his.
I don't have my embroidery machine connected to the network. I use a flash drive to hold patterns. I listen to my Bose system and have a 18" flat panel monitor as a tv and a dvd player in there.
I don't need a kindle or nook, blackberry or an ipad. I think my Ipod touch is the latest electronic device fad I have.

I only have a new computer because my 10 yr. old one died last year; and I love listening to my cassettes...still have a duel cassette player/radio combination that I love. Hoping it never dies. Still have my plain Kenmore sewing machine that I bought for $117 dollars that I use for curtains and jeans; but have to confess hubby bought me the new Janome Horizon as a surprise for our wedding anniversary. It is very nice!! I couldn't be without a rotary cutter because the arthritis in my fingers wouldn't allow for me to cut all those pieces of fabric with scissors. I don't text and have no desire to have a blackberry. Still enjoy reading a real book too!

I wish I had a sewing room. My machine gets set on the kitchen table , my iron/cutting board sit in the living room, and my fabric is in my spare bedroom. My hubby works out of town a week at a time then home for a few days, so when he is out then I can do my sewing and cutting without moving anything :)

I do that all the time still epson sucks down ink.
What lead me to that they were cheating you out of ink was. I was low on my color inks and only changing them when they ran out.
But I only printed with black ink only selected. Yet the colors kept running out. So when they were not suppose to be using color ink somehow my ink was gone. Lol live and learn. I had read an article on yahoo a few years ago about printers doing that and I didnt pay much attention as I had a lexmark. But hubby got me this Epson for my birthday so I am stuck with it for awhile

I have one of my bedroom turned in a sewing room. When my Children come to visit in the summer everything has to be put in the garage and all the bedroom things put back. I have a T.V,
hubby gave me a cd player for Xmas, my cutting board/
ironing board is a desk with drawers and it is over 60 years old.
Until recently I had a long folding table for my sewing table. I had a new one built. I do have 2 sewing machines. I spend lots of enjoyable hours quilting and listening to my favourite music.
When I started quilting It was in my living room on a folding table by the window.

"Patsy Kline/Dinah Washington/Skeeter Davis" Wow!! :shock:

not all on one tape!! I have very eclectic tastes in music, also Mario Lanza, Placido Domingo, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith...
All the stuff my DH does not like, so I can listen to my stuff in my sewing room.