When I graduated from high school my parents bought me a Singer sewing machine that I had for a really long time. When I wanted a machine that had an easier button hole attachment I ended up buying a New Home machine. I had that for a long time as well. For these machines I mainly made clothing. Then I upgraded to the Janome 6500. By then I was mainly quilting. I even remember the first quilt I made on the 6500. It was a Halloween quilt. My husband wonders how I remember such mundane details! Heck I remember a Saturday in Pittsburgh when I went to art classes at Carnegie museum. When I went in for the class it was not snowing, but when I came out we had 6 inches of snow. I had to ride a streetcar into the city and it smelled of wet wool from all the wet coats. I met my dad in the city and we drove home which took a long time. When we got home my mom had already made dinner and we ate overcooked spaghetti for dinner. He can’t believe I can remember such a weird thing. I think I mainly remember it because my mom was angry that we were so late for dinner. I was in 9th grade at the time.
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| Halloween quilt made on Janome 6500 |
When I upgraded to the Janome 9400 the first quilt was a scene of Boston that I made for my daughter. It was a modified photograph that I had printed and then quilted it. This is when I discovered that the 9400 skipped stitches when quilting unless you used a specific needle. I looked back over my blog when I got the machine and saw that I loved the machine at first, but have had issues off and on with it since. Skipping stitches, threader not working, empty bobbin alert not working are just a few. So I am now upgrading again to the Janome M7 this coming Tuesday.
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| Beantown |
Another early quilt on the 9400 was my tribute to Frank Lloyd Wright. It might have been my second one on this machine.
I will play with the M7 for a bit and then quilt the Boston quilt. I’m sure I will remember that that was the first one done on the new machine.
Do you remember what quilts you made on your different machines? Or am I just crazy?
Thanks for reading.
Congrats on your new machine, I'm sure it is full of bells and whistles. I had a Janome 6000 and it did free motion quilting very well, I loved that machine. Also, concurrently, I had a Husqvarna that would not do FMQ, but it was a workhorse during my home dec sewing career. It is now my backup when the Bernina is at the spa.
ReplyDeleteGoodness, the Boston quilt is finally going under the needle.Congrats!
ReplyDeleteI remember each machine and how it came into my life but no, I don't remember much about what quilts were made on them. A few specifically but not many. I too mostly made clothing with my machines until I gave that up because of too many ill-fitting results, and really got into quilting in the late 80's, where fitting to a specific dimension wasn't as much of an issue. ;-)
ReplyDeleteNo, Chris, I don't recall the first quilt I quilted on each of my machines. I do recall receiving each machine. My MIL gave me a Viking Huskavana for our first anniversary. It had cams to select the various stitches. I made a horrible baby quilt based on Eleanor Burns Log Cabin in a Day. That was 9 years after the machine entered my life. The more I got into quilting the more I lusted after a Bernina. Bought the Bernina 1260. My dream machine. It is still my only domestic machine, but I not large enough for my artwork. So, in 2010 when we moved and I had the room, I bought a George by APQS. No idea what quilt was first, but that is my go to quilting machine. Great question.
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