What sewing machine do you wish for?

Whichever one I don't happen to have. :*(

I'd like one of those as a decoration since my house is Victorian.

My older brother was the same way. My mother had to hide all my father's tool......... :^)

I have a hankering for a Singer 201. Don't need it, have no place/space for it... just want one!

Leslie, Missy & The Furbabies in MO.

I have 4 machines right now, A babylock esante used for embroidery and quilting, an omega bought at wally world to use for peicing which has now been demoted to my spare machine, an old singer from the 70's I think which was my spare machine but I will prolly sell it off shortly and a Janome jem gold 2 which I just got on monday for our 4th anniversary which has taken over the role of my peicing machine and will likely do some quilting too. I also have a kenmore 4 thread serger that my parents bought me for christmas about 5 or 6 yrs ago

Oh and I have an old singer treadle from about 1902, I can't remember which model it is off the top of my head though. So I guess that makes it 6 machines!

I would like to add a gammil or even a mid arm like the hq 16 to the collection and the bigger commercial type babylock embroidery machine but that thing it like $10 grand and I don't embroider THAT much!!!!

Oh and you would be suprised where you run accross those treadles! I got mine from a fellow Jeeper on a Jeep/Offroad message board for $100 and it was in pretty good condition. I haven't tried to sew with it yet, with the baby and the move, etc, etc I haven't had time to put it all back together yet (I took it apart to clean all the gummy old oil out of it) but it did appear to be working fine with the exception that the old leather belt needed tightening.

I still want a Janome 6600. Everyone keeps telling me that the Pfaff

7570 I just inherited is a better machine. But I love the Janome "feel" I have enjoyed piecing on the Pfaff, but I can't FM quilt on it. I have to go back to my old Janome. I suppose what I will end up with is the Janome 1600. Eventually I want a mid-arm quilting machine on a rail system. Or a Gamill. Boy aren't my "wants" grand. None of them except the straight stitch, fast 1600 is likely to ever happen. And even that is a long shot. But I can dream.

Sunny

An Elna Lotus -- that is a womewhat realistic wish. Also a longarm -- but that is totally unrealistic, as I live in a condo and have no place for it (or even a domestic machine on a frame) and I don't want to do it as a business, only for myself.

Julia in MN

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Maureen Wozniak wrote:

We're just dreaming, right? I wish for a Bernina with about 6" more arc room and a BSR that is perfect. I hope Bernina is listening. I'm not getting any younger. Polly

Taria, I'll grant that it is truly none of my business. ( Minding my own business is one of my very few virtues.) But I just got to ask. What in the world are you stitching that speed is important? Are you stitching Priscilla curtains for an entire subdivision? Bernina boasts of their high-speed and does a beautiful and infinitely variable blanket stitch. So therefore? Anything I blanket stitch has curves and points that must be negotiated carefully. Just very curious about what you're up to. Polly

Taria, I feel your pain. Just box up that troublesome 6600 and send it right to me. Then you can go out and buy a new machine without feeling any guilt. You can say "I donated my Janome to a poor woman who would never be able to afford such a nice machine. Now I deserve to buy myself something truly special!" >BEG<

Seriously, my Janome 5700 stitches slower than my just inherited Pfaff, but for some reason I find it smoother and to have more finesse. And I dearly love computers in sewing machines. That said, I do want one of those Janome treadle machines that the Amish women use. Then I could sew even if the electricity goes out. Not that it everdoes, but one can't be too careful.

Sunny contemplating reasons why the electricity might go out

I'd love to find a European-wired Featherweight. Just because I know they are out there! Roberta in D

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Don't know that I wish for another machine. I have a Pfaff 7530 which I dearly love and I'll probably use it until it dies. I also have a Brother 1500 which I seldom use, although it sews like a dream, and a Featherweight which I've never taken out of its case. (It was Mom's and I'm not quite ready to tackle the machine or the memories.)

Any desire I've ever had for a true long arm was satisfied by having one at work. No one person can piece enough to keep a long-arm busy. So I'd feel like I'd have to take in other people's quilts and I knopw I don't want to do that. I'll happily pay to have my big quilts quilted on the long arm and keep on piecing!

joan

Well, Taria. I think you've answered yourself but I'll chime in here and agree with you. You really just must take your SM in to the dealer and let them try to help you become at ease with it. The store machine may look the same but it isn't. It simply is not. I have two Berninas that appear to be identical but they most certainly do have different personalities. It just could be that you and the Janome will never be best friends . . . but methinks you ought to give it just one more chance. Then you will have a better idea of whether to trade, abandon ship and sell it or what. I 've been there. I understand. This situation is much like what Dear Abby used to ask about husbands. "Would you be better off without it"? Polly

"Taria" Probably really nothing at that speed but kind of like a car the CAN

I do not want another sewing machine. I recently gave away one, and sold four. That left me with three -Singer 834, white colored FW [got to clean it up], and Stradivaro - knockoff of a Singer 15 that I got for $8 on eBay. The footpedal and wiring now need to be replaced on the last one, as discovered on my retreat three weeks ago. No need for a computerized machine.

I'll probably wander past the Viking and Bernina dealers at the next quilt show, but won't enter any prize drawing etc.

G> Mary asked how many machines do you have? =A0I want to know what machine d= o you

I have been wanting a straight stitch commercial machine ever since I started sewing. I see that Juki has a new model, 8700 that is pretty impressive. But hey, I also would like to have a Consew industrial, even. I know, you don't sew as fast as these things are capable of sewing but I have sewn on commercial machines before and there is something solid and powerful about them. They usually only do one thing per machine. But, boy do they do that well. I would love to have one mounted in an industrial stand with the large motor and sewing light on a goose neck lamp. My Janome 1600 db is a reasonable compromise and the way I have it set up it is "almost" the same thing as I am describing. What I have found since I started quilting, is that I only use a straight stitch, pretty much all the time. So, that fits into my lust for the high speed commercial machine. It probably will never happen as I don't have the room for it, and I don't really have the need. But we are talking lust here , aren't we?

John

I'm looking at the HV Sapphires, either the 830 or 850. Otherwise it's something else that will handle every day sewing on stuff like chiffon and denim as well as quilting as well as not munching knit fabrics.

Not asking for much am I?

I'd also like to have a Singer treadle

I did all of that on my 1966 Elna Supermatic -- my wedding gown, lingerie, jeans, wool suits, even a piece of luggage (duffel bag type), and some quilts :) I haven't sewn quite such a variety of fabrics on my much newer Elna 6003, but it has handled everything I've thrown at it.

Julia in MN

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mel>> Don't know that I wish for another machine. I have a Pfaff 7530 which

I want a 1 step buttonhole and a few more decorative stitches would be nice. The 1980 Janome is a good machine, really solid and heavy, but lacks a 1 step buttonhole and is a bit iffy about really heavy fabrics, the right needle helps but it can still be a problem, and I'd like more harp space.