What is the "box feed"??

I'm getting into machine applique I need a nice blanket stitch. The deco stitches on my Pfaff aren't very pretty! And, it has the thread cutter and knee lift that I love on the 2010Q so I think it might become my piecing machine as it has a box feed that it supposed to be really good.

The fabric cupboard is full, so I had to feed the shopping demon in some other way. lol

No, seriously, one of them - the Pfaff, is supposed to be the backup machine when Quilla (my Baby Lock) goes to be serviced or to take to class. Then I recently got a HQ Sweet 16 quilting machine. I guess I am lucky that my hubby supports my habit and so does the checkbook (at times).

I have a Bernina 440 with a BRS when I wanted to start quilting my own quilts. It replaced my very nice Husqvarna, but that is now at my summer place which I use for piecing and making clothing when I'm not golfing :)
I have a serger for clothing and many times I use it to sew the backing pieces together. It creates a nice seam while triming the selvage edge elimenating the step of cutting it off as it does it while sewing the seam. Then after learning the free motion quilting with the Bernina 440 and BRS on small baby quilts and doing one large bed size quilt I realized I really like the quilting process ( and pieceing my own quilts) and felt that if I sent out the quilt out for quilting it was not "mine" anymore. So I never had anyone else quilt for me and started having tops pile up. I started investigating the LA's and finally bought one and never been happier. It is so much fun. And now I quilt for QOV. Anyway, that's is why I have four. Oh, and I did buy a blind hemmer off ebay. Don't use it much and probably should give that one up.

I have 3 machines in use at all time, due to pure laziness, one is set up for quilting, one for straight stitches in white and one in dark colors!

Great question!

My 1972 Singer Stylist...gift from parents when I was in Jr High.
Janome 9700 sew/embroid...Bought it in 2006 or 2007...i forget.
Janome Decor 3050 bought in 2007. Portable!
1953 Singer Centennial model. It was my late aunts' machine
Singer Serger 14U84 (i think). from 1986. I bought it from a friend who was cleaning our her mother's home. 2010
Janome 1100 Serger...bought in 2011
Brother Cover Stitch...bought the floor model...cheap price! Bought it in 2011

Now I want to upgrade from my 9700 to a more 'modern' machine w/USB capability....but probably won't any time soon.

Wow!

Sandy

Why so many "junk" cars!

Sandy

There are lots of reasons to have several sewing machines. Acquisitions over time, handed down from family, for different types of sewing, and my OCD - obsessive-compulsive-disorder :0/
I have the Singer featherweight (from Aunt Sandi), Gramma's Singer 66 treadle, a Wheeler&Wilson treadle, a Household treadle, an 1890's Pfaff model B handcrank. A Singer 15-91 that was a $20 garage sale purchase that didn't work, but I dismantled, cleaned it and put it back together - and it now runs perfectly.
My newer machines are a Pfaff Grandquilter on a 10 foot quilting table, Pfaff Quilt Expression 4.0, and Brother 4500 Duetta for sewing & embroidery.
And there are two other machines - I forget . . .

I have an old Pfaff that I had before the embroidery Pfaff I got. Keep it as a backup, or let a friend use it from time to time. I have an Elna Lotus that I got even before the Pfaff. It's so small and portable, I take it when I travel. I have a mint green old Singer that's a bit bigger than a featherweight I got at the quilt show because it is MINT GREEN! And it was only $50. And my son just got me a featherweight, and I don't intend to part with that either. Sometimes I just like to sew on something different, so I keep them all!
Oh yes, and a treadle that does work, but is mostly for decor.

I have a Bernina Artista 185 for sewing and assembling quilts. A bernina serger, a Bernina embroidery machine, a Brother embroidery machine, a featherweight a Bernina 220 with is lightweight and very portable and a treadle machine. I use the Artista daily, the serger and the Artista when I am making Linus quilts. I got the stand alone embroidery machine because it can be running and sewing while I am using the other machines. I got the second embroidery machine because it has a larger hoop size and all of the software for the Bernina embroidery machine also fits it along with it has a USB capacity that the Bernina machine doesn't have. I use the smaller, lighter 220 Bernina when I need to take the machine out of the room or my house. I purchased a mint condtion Featherweight at a yard sale for $20 several years ago. I only use it on occasion. I learned to sew on one as my mother owned one that she purchased in 1936. When she passed I let my neices have it since she had also taught them to sew with it and I had more than enough machines. The treadle is something else I got cheap and it mainly provides a place for my cat to nap under the window in the TV room.
I have a definate weight problem so I am not interested in clothes. I spend most of my spare time and money making Linus quilts and or bed quilts. I handquilt everything but the Linus quilts and also do some crocheting. If my only daughter every gets around to having a baby I will become a tiny clothing expert in a hurry.

You could be my twin, I love sewing machines and loved them as a child, I wasn't able to have one until I was grown & working and it wasn't until all 4 of my children were through school and on their own that I realized that owning more than one machine was legal! Even DH helps-if we spot a classic vintage machine that needs help we bring it home, clean & oil, get it working, often give it to someone who will give it a good home.
I have about 20 machines, ranging from $5 garage sale finds to TOL's. All are in working condition and all get used, my friends come over to sew for various charity projects, so much fun!