What's your sewing machine's name?
#182
This thread is VERY interesting!! The responses are all over the place.
OK, only my longarn has a name - "Beth" - because it was SUPPOSED to be a Tin Lizzie (Lizzie = Elizabeth = Beth). She actually is a Viking MegaQuilter 18x8 (same thing as a Tin Lizzie). My other sewing machines (Viking Designer I and a Singer serger) don't have names.
However, all our vehicles and tractors have names:
Vehicles:
Ford F350 is (understandably) Ford
Camaro is Red (and she is)
Ugly Alice and Betty are both Saturns
Tractors:
Massey Ferguson (biggest one) Big Mama
MF 274 is Mike (the name of the guy we bought it from)
MF 165 is Granny
1943 Farm All Super A is Matilda
and a little yard tractor/lawnmower is Ernie (the name of the guy who gave it to us, dead as a door-nail - we fixed it, runs good)
OK, only my longarn has a name - "Beth" - because it was SUPPOSED to be a Tin Lizzie (Lizzie = Elizabeth = Beth). She actually is a Viking MegaQuilter 18x8 (same thing as a Tin Lizzie). My other sewing machines (Viking Designer I and a Singer serger) don't have names.
However, all our vehicles and tractors have names:
Vehicles:
Ford F350 is (understandably) Ford
Camaro is Red (and she is)
Ugly Alice and Betty are both Saturns
Tractors:
Massey Ferguson (biggest one) Big Mama
MF 274 is Mike (the name of the guy we bought it from)
MF 165 is Granny
1943 Farm All Super A is Matilda
and a little yard tractor/lawnmower is Ernie (the name of the guy who gave it to us, dead as a door-nail - we fixed it, runs good)
#186
It never occurred to me to name my sewing machines until I read of someone else doing it; then it seemed a fun idea.
Pfaff 1473CD & Pfaff 360 are Ilsa and Rick because I love the film "Casablanca".
Singer 201-2--Claire (Clara): for my grandmother who was a talented seamstress.
Singer 15-91--Amelia: for my mom's best friend who sewed for me.
Singer 221--Mary: sweet and simple.
White FR (1909)--Juniper: variation of Junipero Serra, founder of California missions; it's in a mission-style cabinet.
Improved "The Eldredge" B--Frances: Purchased on the feast day of St. Francis de Sales, one of my favorite saints.
U.S. Blind Stitch--Bentley: I like the name.
BabyLock Imagine overlock--Gracie: for the maid in Anne Perry's books.
Pfaff 1473CD & Pfaff 360 are Ilsa and Rick because I love the film "Casablanca".
Singer 201-2--Claire (Clara): for my grandmother who was a talented seamstress.
Singer 15-91--Amelia: for my mom's best friend who sewed for me.
Singer 221--Mary: sweet and simple.
White FR (1909)--Juniper: variation of Junipero Serra, founder of California missions; it's in a mission-style cabinet.
Improved "The Eldredge" B--Frances: Purchased on the feast day of St. Francis de Sales, one of my favorite saints.
U.S. Blind Stitch--Bentley: I like the name.
BabyLock Imagine overlock--Gracie: for the maid in Anne Perry's books.
#187
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My Featherweight is Lil Bit, my Juki is Nellie (as in whoa Nellie cause it sews so fast) and the Bernette is Bernie. I call hubby's truck the rolling biscuit due to his eating breakfast on his drive to work.
#189
I have 7 featherweights...named them all but I can't remember their names right now...what a terrible mom I am...I have it written down somewhere but names have escaped me..lol... Can only remember 2 of them...
1. Georgina...because I bought it in town of Georgina, Lake Simcoe
2. Rocky...born in 1958, a hard to find year I was told...same year as me...so named after me too
3. ?
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and one featherweight 222 from England so I named her Elizabeth
my "real" machines don't have names...except for my Longarm, which is named Lucey...APQS named her...she has it written on her, so I didn't want to traumatize her and change her name upon adoption so I kept it...
1. Georgina...because I bought it in town of Georgina, Lake Simcoe
2. Rocky...born in 1958, a hard to find year I was told...same year as me...so named after me too
3. ?
4.?
5.?
6.?
7.?
and one featherweight 222 from England so I named her Elizabeth
my "real" machines don't have names...except for my Longarm, which is named Lucey...APQS named her...she has it written on her, so I didn't want to traumatize her and change her name upon adoption so I kept it...
#190
I don't name machines and have always thought the practice was rather silly (sorry!). I work with lots of people teaching them in fitness classes, and I strain my memory and brain trying to learn and remember each and every one of their first names. I don't see the point in doing this for my machines too and overloading my circuits! I have over a dozen machines. Names like "Juki" and "Singer 301" make more sense to me.
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