Josi49,
I saw the Janome Horizion at the Janome/Pfaff dealer yesterday; quite a machine!
Sharon W.

Pfaff 2134, old kenmore, my home surger.

I'm new here. Have been watching for some time and find everyone so nice and friendly. I've been quilting for quite a few years...Always wanting to learn new things.

I use a Bernina and a Pfaff...

I use a viking freesia and a Scandinavia 400 along with my Grandmothers old straight stitch singer. also have a brother and a serger Love my Grans old machine Mom gave it to me when Gran died at 80 in 1990 she had it from a young girl.

Jem Gold, older portable Brother. Have FW 221, and others, but need to get them out, once I finish unpacking, and use them.

I have a Janome Memory Craft 6600 and a 525s which is for workshops because it is lighter than the 6600 and I try to do some thing on it every day depending what is needed to be done from leather thimbles to applique quilts.

pfaff with walking foot[idt] with a special 1/4 inch foot the foot has been greatest help to maintain accuracy i have an old singer electric + a hand turning singer[just in case of a power cut!!!!] a tiny elna for when my back hurts and i need to carry out and for a pure toy an embroidery macine[pfaff]

I piece with my Singers: featherweight, 401a, 201. I do simple quilting with the 201 or the 401a.

When at home I piece & quilt small items on a Janome 6600 & quilt king size quilts with a Brother 1500--When at the cabin, I piece with a singer featherweight & quilt with a Bernina 930 (love that machine)--

I love my Pfaff 1471!! But my DDDDDDH just got me a Pfaff Creative Vision 5.0 for my birthday!!!! I'm getting used to it now and I think I'll love it for years to come, too! Still have and use my trusty 1471, though!

I use the only machine I have for this and that is the Janome
Memory Craft 6500....The Pfaff is for the medium arm quilter.

I use my Pfaff for piecing and my New Home for quilting an embroidery. Love them both.

Rhueluna your work is lovely I do a lot of hand work too

i have a singer commercial machine that was bought out of a sewing factory

I use my Singer Simple 3116 that DH bought me 4 years ago from Walmart for less the $200 when I first started to learn. I use it to piece since I hand quilt.

Beautiful work indeed!!! Makes me want to hand quilt although I know I would never measure up to your outstanding work. Keep it up, please.

Usually either my Pfaff or my Bernina 180...but sometimes some of the others. I just love machines,,,it is a sickness! LOL

I have the same machine from WM and some times I like it better then my BabyLock ProLine......I use it more for FMQ then the BABYLOCK.
It has many more decorative stitches then my BL......I really like it.
I was told that it's sort of tricky to use for free motion embroidery.

Janome3000

Husqvarna/Viking Sapphire 870 Quilt. The only machine I could bring w/me.

For piecing I use my Brother CS6000; for quilting I use my Brother Nouvelle 1500S; for machine embroidery I use my Brother ULT2003D. See a pattern here??? LOL

I use a Kenmore and singer featherweight and I also have a Domestic Delux sewing machine..

With one of my Husquvarna/Vikings and some with my featherweigh.

I feel bad, I only have my Bernina 153 that I've had for 8 years. Some of you have choices!, of course this way I don't have to decide which machine I am going to use!

I only have my Janome DC2008, I think. I love it! Someday I hope to upgrade.

Brother SE270D - I love it!

I olny have one machine, an Elna SU that is 37 years old and keeps on ticking.

I only have one and I love it, Elna 6003

For many years(8 yrs) I only had Bernina 1031 and then I discovered Singer featherweights(swoons). Now I've got about 15 machines and rotate through them.
Sharon W.

I use my Pfaff 2030 for just about everything...love it! I also have a Pfaff Grand Quilter, with a walking foot for anything very large, and am trying to learn FMQ on it.

Sue

I peice and quilt with a Viking Sapphire 980. Love everything it does.

Don't feel badly Lucky Lindy. I have a total of 4 sewing machines but they are, my 1st machine I bought in the 70's, upgraded in the 90's, upgraded again, and my mothers sewing machine in a cabinet. I have never traded a machine in, just kept it. But....I also have 2 embroidery machines,(3 if you count the pfaff which is a combo machine) a serger, a coverstitch machine and an Embellisher. All the latter are Babylock machines, Oh...forgot to add the 1896 Singer treadle but I'm too stupid to use that one! Most of my machines all serve different purposes.

I'm almost embarrassed to say as I've never heard my machine mentioned on any quilting site. It's a Simplicity SW240 Quilters Classic. What's the deal? Is this an inferior machine or something? Well, for whatever reason I LOVE IT!!! It was reasonably priced, has metal gears and humms like a dream for me. It's all I've ever used for piecing/quilting and for me it works great. I've recently aquired TWO Singer 221 featherweights. A 1948 and a Centennial 1951. I've just tinkered with them so far. Haven't had a chance to sew anything on them yet, but I can't wait. In the meantime I'm very pleased and content with my Simplicity. It does everything I need it to and much more.

Quilterguy....I had a Simplicity machine (don't remember the model) several years ago. It worked great and why I got rid of it is beyond me :( Probably because I upgraded to a Brother embroidery/sewing machine and thought I only needed to have the one machine. WRONG! It wasn't long until I bought another Brother machine (like the Simplicity) to use for piecing. That way I wasn't changing the embroidery machine back and forth. You are sooooo lucky to get 2 Featherweights!!! I'm envious!! How did you acquire them?

I piece with my Janome MC4000. I quilt with my New Home and sometimes the Janome.

I got the '51 from eBay and the other I bought from a guy named John Bryant (featherweight poppy) in Salisbury, NC. Great guy, great machine, & great service. If I needed another one I'd be getting in touch with him again.

how do we who have more than one machine decide which one to use? the one with the right color thread on it, LOL

I, too, got my Featherweight from John Bryant. Like you, I was very pleased. Price was great and condition great. Saw a dealer selling them for $750 at the American Quilters Society quilt show at Knoxville yesterday. Use it at my Care Quilters group at church, have a Viking #1 at home. Miss my Pfaff with the built-in walking foot, though.

I use my Janome DC 2010