Name the machine
04-02-2011, 01:29 PM
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When you give your machine a name, is it always a girls name or can it be a guy's name? My longarm machine should arrive next week and I want to name it. How about Hal (from the movie (2001)?
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04-02-2011, 01:37 PM
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It's your machine, you can name it how you wish. My named machines are vintage ones named after relatives who did good work. I am not familiar with that movie so I don't know if that criteria works. I haven't named my 'new' treadle yet. She'll tell me her name when I clean her up. It may involve moving a name and renaming a machine I may not keep.
At least machine one on the vintage site is named Bubba. I hope they were thinking male.
At least machine one on the vintage site is named Bubba. I hope they were thinking male.
04-02-2011, 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted by lynndianne
When you give your machine a name, is it always a girls name or can it be a guy's name? My longarm machine should arrive next week and I want to name it. How about Hal (from the movie (2001)?
Lynn
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I named my Pfaff Erik the Red, and I named my longarm Star. I thought of it sort of like naming a horse. But I never talk to either one of them, so I rarely use their names.
04-02-2011, 04:41 PM
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I have not named my machine. I am hoping some day to own an antique machine, I think they are called featherweights. If I am so lucky I will name it Bess. A few years ago I bought a lot of quilt magazines and included were a few old quilting books and inside one (from 1951) it had the name city and state of the owner and her name was Bess. I feel so fortunate to be the second owner of this book and will make a quilt from it some day in her honor.
04-02-2011, 09:29 PM
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My serger is a boy, as well as, my husbands FW. The girls don't usually give the 2 boys much of a hard time. lol
:thumbup: Name it what feels right for you. It's your family who is doing the adopting, your choice.
:thumbup: Name it what feels right for you. It's your family who is doing the adopting, your choice.
04-02-2011, 10:14 PM
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Originally Posted by mimom
I have not named my machine. I am hoping some day to own an antique machine, I think they are called featherweights. If I am so lucky I will name it Bess. A few years ago I bought a lot of quilt magazines and included were a few old quilting books and inside one (from 1951) it had the name city and state of the owner and her name was Bess. I feel so fortunate to be the second owner of this book and will make a quilt from it some day in her honor.
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