atr age 21 I borrowed my sisters sm to make a halloween outfit for my son and a pantsuit for myself. returned it to her . don't know what kind it was, but it sewed very well.
At age 44 { 1994} I bought my own sm at a yrad sale for $35 dollars it came with a table {" not a cabinet}. figured if I did not stay with sewing it wasn't much money wasted.
The next year my MIL gave me her White circa 1960's?. DH then bought me an Elna 8000, which I still have,and he has since bought me a Janone 10001. I now own 3 sm's and 3 sergers.
I guess I am a very late bloomer but caught the sewing bug/

I bought a Good Housekeeper portable model at a pawn shop in Killeen TX when I was 19. It was a great machine. Used it for many years until my mother bought me Riccar. I gave the Good Housekeeper to a lady at church who wanted to sew.

I learned to sew on my Mother's old Singer and bought my first machine back in 1973. It was an old Kenmore (mechanical and all metal) and I used it so much by 1982 it froze up. The repair dealer couldn't do anything with it. Now I know it probably just needed lots of oil and a good cleaning. Wish I still had it today as it was a really good machine.

It was a Singer and I was 8 or so. It was in the mid-60's, and was probably couple of years old, because Mom bought it new. I still have some of the Barbie clothes I made on it, for my Barbie I still have, from the first year Barbie came out.
The clothes are very, uh, amateurish, but she sure looks good in them!

I learned on Singers in Home Ec in Jr. High and on my mother's Singer at home. But when I went to college to major in Home Ec Dad bought me a White. I wore it out and have had several other machines since. I would trade them all in for my original White. It was heavy to transport but worth the effort. It was the most accurate stitcher and easiest to use and maintain.

58 years ago, almost 59, I got a blue, "Little Modiste". It had the hand wheel to turn. the wheel has a little handle on it to turn the wheel. I is all metal, about 12" tall from the top of the thread spool to the bottom of the base. I t sits on a shelf here in my computer room. A nd it really does sew!

I learned to sew at age 5 on an old Paveway treadle machine. My first major investment when I started earning money ws a Singer. The first ones using removable cams for decorative stitches, I wore that one out after about l5 years bought a Janome Just about wore that one out, too. Five years ago iI won a Janome D3050 at a quilt show. It's still working! Jane

My first sewing machine was a Brother. I was 19 years old. I was making quilts by hand before that for 9 years. I spent all of my free time sewing. Now I just spend all of my time sewing. If I am not cutting out a quilt top I am recycling unused quilt blocks into something else.

we all sewed on a remington machine when i was a teenagers, about 4-5 of us girls sewing every spare moment. i didn't have my own machine until i had been married about a year. it was the cheapest singer on the market. from there, several years later i started "inheriting' my sister's cast offs - new homes x3. now i have my mom's new home she bought about 15 years ago and it runs great.

My parents bought me a nice machine when I turned 22 in the 60's They wanted to get me a Singer, but this machine was all metal, and I thought it was nice. Only a straight stitch at the time. It was called Easy Sew, or Sew Easy--don't recall. Traded it in several years later for Singer Touch and Sew and I hated it. think it was a lemon.