plainpat

Kenmore,it came in a cabinet.Bought when oldest DD joined 4-H.I was 29.She hated sewing/crafts....still does :).I used it to make short,PJs for the girls untill DH retired.We traveled with our RV & he got me a Featherweight.Used it for 10 yrs,then moved on to 3 diff brands.Still have last 2 & won't have to buy another.

Mamagoat

My first sewing machine was a Household (I think) brand.My husband bought it for me from a pawnshop when I was 17 & pg with my first child. When I gave him a son @ the age of 21, he bought me a new machine.That son is 46 now & I don't remember the brand. When we went to Germany in '72, he bought me the Pfaff 1222, which I wore out.My son bought me my Viking 500,15 yrs.ago. And that's my baby! I have a old singer 400 that my quilt teacher gave me that I quilt on.I learn to sew on my grandmothers treadle sewing machine.Daddy traded it for a zigzag machine just before he died but mother wouldn't let me have it when I married so young,(16).

mcdaniel023

My now DH bought me a Kenmore as a high school graduation present. It is still in my sewing room 36 years later and it still runs great. If he knew what he was starting he probably wouldn't have done it. LOL!

noveltyjunkie

Wow you all started young! As a child I was only ever taught handsewing, at home and at school (can you believe that there was no machine in the home ec room, and this was not a poorly equipped school either). It just was not part of my education to use a machine. I was always fascinated but to me it was something mysterious- the workings of my mother's Alfa were as alien to me as the workings of my Dad's car.
It took me a long time to realise that I needed to get myself a machine- I was already married with three kids and needed a hobby that I could do at home as I couldn't get out much.

watterstide

a kenmore..i was about 20. grandma helped me make a dress for my baby. i free cycled it a few years ago..it just needed a new bobbin holder..

AliceQ

Mine was a White. It was 1969, I was 17, and my then boyfriend (now hubby, 41 years this month) bought it for me for my high school graduation. I used it till it died and I bought another White about 5 yrs ago.

Whitney60

I bought a Sears Kenmore, maybe 1970 in a cabnet. I still use it. My sewing friend keeps telling me I should be a new one. But I love it.

Lady-T

well.....don't I feel like the odd duck here.
DH bought me my first machine in 2001, at age 45!
It was a Viking Huskystar. Great little macjine!

gh

My Grandma gave me a Singer Featherweight after I moved out on my own back in the 70's. I saved up enough money and bought a Singer Touch-N-Sew when I was in my 20's. I still have both machines but use them as backup machines since I got a Brother last year.

sew_sew

My mother didn't sew, although I believe she knew how. For a short time, during my childhood we had a balky protable that I was allowed to use but it was a pain and I rarely did. I loved home ec and did sucessfuly complete the projects, sewing on part of one on a friend of my mothers old treadle. The first machine I had of my own was a used one I bought from a neighbor, used mainly for mending, I passed it on to my sister when another sister gave me a sewing machine her husband's aunt had given her. That old machine was the one that I actually started doing real sewing on. I still have it 40 years later. It is a 1915 Franklin, with knee pedal and no reverse or zigzag. Franklin was made for Sears by a company that precluded White. Of the old hand me down machines I was given through the years that is the only one I've kept. Funny all of the sewing I did for the kids were on old balky machines. It wasn't til they were grown that I ever had a new machine.