Burda Style For people who sew

i have had my sewing machine for 21 years. it was a gift from my grandmother when i first married. i was very young and it saved us a lot of money. my grandmother was the original owner. she has sinced passed on . but i feel a little bit of her goes into the projects i do with the machine.

Dec 2, 2009, 08.05 PM by sadieboop

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  Dec 2, 2009, 08.08 PMby sadieboop

  i have had my sewing machine for 21 years now. my grandmother was its original owner. she gifted the machine to me when i married. i plan to pass it on to my daughter .
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  Dec 3, 2009, 01.20 AMby yitssandi

  I have owned my Bernina 930 for 26 years. I’m the orignal owner. My two daughters and now the grandkids are learning to sew on it. This machine has been in two typhoons and one huricane. It just keeps on going. Plan to pass it down to my daughter when I no longer need it.
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  Dec 18, 2009, 03.32 AMby sweet-saboo

  I’ve had my first singer since about 1989, bought it new from a place that taught sewing lessons near the ‘house of 10,000 picture frames’ in moorestown, new jersey. Supposedly it was one of the last all-metal-drive-train models put out by singer, prior to the company being sold, which resulted in mixed-materials-drive trains in the infrastructure of the singer machines (translation: metal gears meshing with plastic gears)….Even after 20 years it still runs like a top, and i do take it in for servicing every 18 months or so. It’s not a particularly fancy machine, but it’s strong, dependable, and has a special place in my heart. So much so, that a couple of years ago, I rescued a older 70’s era singer from the goodwill, had it cleaned up a few minor repairs, and this older cousin of my first machine has a larger selection of stitch options & the automatic buttonhole function, which are certainly handy to have!
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  Dec 21, 2009, 07.39 PMby little-gator

  I have a sewing machine but I rarely use it. I prefer to hand stitch everything. Though I have been know to use my machine when I am doing lots of long straight lines. Like with the body of long dresses and with capes.
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  Dec 21, 2009, 11.08 PMby flosiepoos

  First one was a Singer – pinched by sister, couldn’t find it in my heart to ask for it back. Second one a cheap Toyota which couldn’t keep up with me so I sold it (good riddance, what a rubbish machine it was) and now I have a bells-and-whistles Janome I am very happy with. I also love using my mother’s trusty Pfaff, she is on her second (!) in 55 (!!) years. She still has her first one, a shiny black affair to which she had a motor fixed in the 60s. She taught me to sew on it!
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  Dec 28, 2009, 01.56 AMby fosteretalk

  I have many fond memories of sewing on an old Singer Treadle. I started to sew on it when I was 5. My father eventually put a motor on it to make it easier for his wife to use. When I was 12 a door to door salesman came with an Elna. I wanted to buy that machine so bad I was in tears. It could zigzag, make button holes and sew the buttons on too. I gave him a little down payment and once a week I mailed him all the money I earned babysitting for neighbor kids. (I was earning the big bucks – $15.00 a week!) That machine was a dream. It never missed a stitch. I had it for 15 years and never had a problem. Unfortunately some threw off a second floor landing and it was ruined. I replaced it with a JC Penney model that I was told was made by Brother. It never ran well. I now have a Singer 7436 Ingenuity that does much better. My best machine is my Husqvarna-Viking Huskylock 936. I have had it for two years and it is perfect. I am sure that I will many years of use out of both these work horses.
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  Dec 28, 2009, 03.07 AMby oscarthegrouch108

  my White my husband bought for me when we first moved in together for $90 about 2 years ago. it very basic, but it works well with little servicing/swearing (though there have been times i’ve wanted to throw it out the window). it’s the first machine that i actually own.

  the first machine i sewed on was my mother’s Pfaff. it was fancy to me, with buttons for fancy stitches and the lovely dual feed, which did lovely quilt blocks. i remember that she was so attached to it, that she didn’t trade it in for her first embroidery machine (“it stitches too nicely to not keep it” i think she said). then she had a Viking #1+, which was too fancy/not user friendly enough for me to figure out. then when we moved, she bought the viking designer SE (trading in the #1+), and i took to that like a duck to water! after i moved out (and had the White for a year), mom chipped in and decided to buy a serger with me. So, i share a Pfaff Hobbylock with her (though i use it more)

  it was actually a little difficult to downgrade from the SE to my White, but i will eventually have the luxery of an embroidery machine again……it will just take a while!