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How many machines are too many? Confesssions of a sewing machine hoarder
scram415 Beginner CA USA Member since 11/7/12 Posts: 6	Login to reply to this post 2 members like this. Date: 1/1/13 7:03 PM So, I've never been one to have a collection of anything. But when it comes to sewing machines, I just can't help myself. I have been sewing less than a year and have already amassed a collection of 3. I'm waiting for the FedEx guy for number 3. I don't know what it is about sewing machines. I admire the simplicity and the craftsmanship. Some of the machines I have seen resemble cars that were produced around the same time. I compare it to my husband who spends all of his spare time working on engines. I have a vintage White, an 80's era Viking and a modern Janome. I spend my non sewing time perusing Craigslist, ebay and thrift stores. The way I see it, I want a machine from every decade. Perhaps it's an addictive personality(?) The only machines I won't take home are the plastic cheaply made machines of today. I figure that if you have an account with this site, you probably know what I'm talking about. How many are too many?
Runrover   Beginner NC USA Member since 9/25/03 Posts: 337	Login to reply to this post 1 member likes this. Date: 1/1/13 7:10 PM Very good question; I'll have to let you know when I get there. Right now I have a herd of six machines (a Bernina 1000, a Viking Daisy, Freesia, Viva and Interlude and a Janome HF107) and a Juki serger. There's something special about each, of course. Three of the Vikings were eBay purchases. I plan to rotate their use. I really enjoy sewing on each. DH jokes that my sewing room looks like a garment factory. Cynthia ------ Cynthia
mastdenman   Intermediate CA USA Member since 1/12/04 Posts: 5843	Login to reply to this post 4 members like this. Date: 1/1/13 7:19 PM Three isn't even close to a collection. See, for example, LynnRowe's featherweights. You must have a modern machine, a vintage machine for thicker fabrics. Then there are cover stitch machines, sergers, embroidery machines, and so on. These are just basic tools. ------ Marilyn January 2009 to January 2010 81 yards out and 71yards in January 2010 to the present 106.7 yards out and 146.5 yards in. January 2011 to the present: 47 yards out and 69 yards in.
Maia B   Advanced Beginner IL USA Member since 10/27/10 Posts: 3404	Login to reply to this post 7 members like this. Date: 1/1/13 7:31 PM 3? 6? This isn't hoarding. If you can easily count them in your head, or on your fingers and toes, you are FINE, really. Heck, if I were to pare it down to just what I "need", to do the type of sewing I like to do (which includes wide decorative stitches on many items), I get to 4 machines, lol. And I don't even have a serger...yet. ------ 🌸 Plenty of machines, mostly Berninas 🌸
jzygail   Intermediate MD USA Member since 11/2/06 Posts: 409	Login to reply to this post In reply to scram415 << 7 members like this. Date: 1/1/13 8:22 PM Too many machines is when you can no longer get to the front door to sign for the next machine the postman brings
GlButterfly Intermediate CA USA Member since 8/28/08 Posts: 2391	Login to reply to this post In reply to jzygail << 1 member likes this. Date: 1/1/13 8:24 PM Hahahahaha. This is better than my answer which would have been 200. ------ I have not yet begun to procrastinate
tourist   Intermediate BC CANADA Member since 7/23/07 Posts: 5423	Login to reply to this post In reply to Maia B << Like this post Date: 1/1/13 8:39 PM For awhile I thought I might be at the magic "too many" number for me, especially since I wasn't rotating them as often as I thought I would. Then I discovered I needed one to keep at work and eventually needed the other "spares" at work for teaching young moms to sew. Hurray! Now I just have my main machine, my Featherweight, my Singer Genie (those two are collectibles, really), my serger, my backup serger and my coverstitch at home. Oodles of space for more. ------ http://bgballroom.wordpress.com to follow the progress on my next ballgown.
Sherril Miller   Advanced CA USA Member since 8/24/02 Posts: 7473	Login to reply to this post 2 members like this. Date: 1/1/13 8:46 PM I thought I had hit my limit with 9. Then I bought another one. Then I sold one and then immediately bought another one. So I guess for me, the number is 10. Which, of course, doesn't count the serger and the coverstitch machine. ------ Visit my blog at http://sewingsaga.blogspot.com If it's worth sewing, it's worth sewing well; and if it's worth sewing well, it's worth FITTING FIRST! - TSL
sewfrequent Intermediate TX USA Member since 6/27/03 Posts: 2908	Login to reply to this post 2 members like this. Date: 1/1/13 8:47 PM I think you have too many when it becomes burdensome and that can be at 3 or 30. For me the magic number was 6. I could never get below 6 and then one day, suddenly I was down to 2! Now we don't count the serger or the vintage Singers or the embroidery only machine). But really 2 sewing machines. They compliment each other well and so far, no withdrawals!
Al Johnson Beginner MN USA Member since 2/17/07 Posts: 1179	Login to reply to this post 2 members like this. Date: 1/1/13 9:50 PM I have six. I don't think that is too many. My dear wife may disagree, however. ------ A sewing machine is just a welder for textiles.

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