This is my lovely 1923 Singer 66K, known as Spinning Jenny.  I bought her in 1976, when I was a student.

'Mrs Jones', my 1909 Jones Family CS, given to me as a birthday present from a friend.

The 15-88: another splendid gift from a friend!  This is a 1936-ish model, and works very well indeed.

My lovely 1953 Featherweight - another gift from a friend!

New!  

Well, new to me!  A Singer 28K, donated to the cause by a friend at my Weight Watcher's meeting!  After a bit of dusting and some oil, and a ten minute fiddle with the upper and shuttle tensions, it works a treat!  Rather rattley compared with the Jones, but has a decent stitch.  Luckily it takes standard needles and all my low shank feet and attachments fit it.  This is a late model, built in 1936.

The Adria Saxonia machine.  This one has a date of 1907 inside the lid, but I have a feeling it's older than that.  This is something of a restoration project, more of which can be seen here.

My mother's 'Frankensinger' - the Singer 99K cobbled together after an accident with a ship!  This is the first machine I ever sewed a garment on.  It was a Malta Weave cotton skirt with a zip.  I was about seven.

You can see the different decal patterns on machine bed and hand wheel.

This Novum is a Type !5 machine, built in Ireland.  It needed dusting and oiling, and the motor needed a bit of cleaning up, but after that it went very well indeed!  I took it into school on my last adventure with Christmas stockings, and the kids said it was TOO FAST and rather scary!  Not as easy to get this one to sew slowly as some of the others, but quite a nice machine.

New!

Elaine's New Home!

This is a lovely smooth machine to use.  Elaine used it for many years for her ballroom dancing work, but recently upgraded, and wanted this to go somewhere it would be used.  It went into school, and the kids loved it!  They also thought the monogram attachment was seriously cool!  I need to take a few more pictures of this one and its work.

The Viscount 2000.  I bought this as a pre-loved machine when the Cub 8 died.  It served me well, then went to live with Mum for a while.  I brought it back when I gave her the little Singer 117 Featherweight II

The Elna Lotus ZZ I kept!

My latest Elna acquisition: another Elna Lotus.  This time it's a TSP, in better cosmetic state than the ZZ, and just as nice to use.

New!

A Singer 367!  This is very like the Singer I got as a 21st birthday present, and which I could never get to work properly!  This seems to be a better behaved machine than that, but needed quite a bit of work and patience to get it going as it was completely seized!  More on that story here.

My Husqvarna Lily 550, the trusty workbench workhorse.  This machine is so easy to use and does so many things I will never outgrow it!  

The Frister & Rossmann Cub 8

This is the machine on which I made my wedding dress, and which has a broken stitch selector.  My only non-working machine.

Broken stitch selector

My new Brother 1034D serger.  This is a grand little machine, with plenty of features, including the free arm I loved on the Huskylock.  I bought this as a back-up machine to take the Toyotas place.  It has both the free arm and differential feed, and is a very sturdy machine, and very good for the price.

The Bernina 1150MDA.  This is the main replacement for the Huskylock.  It's incredibly smooth and very quiet.  It has lots of lovely features, but lacks the free arm.  While I don't use that very often, when I want it, it's invaluable, which is why I also bought the brother.  I decided against the cover stitch version, as I use it so little and get a decent version with the twin needle on the lily and other machines.  

The little Toyota SL3404E serger that I got as a backup machine.  It's slower than the Huskylock, but very solid and sews very well.

Serge The Serger: my trusty Huskylock 910, now dying of old age and slavery after seven and a half years.  Shame, as this is an excellent machine.  I have just used it far more and on tougher projects than it was really designed for.  This has now gone into full retirement in its box in the loft, and I have two new sergers in place in the sewing room.

This lovely treadle 66K with the lotus decals was given to me for re-homing.  The new owner is delighted with it.  This one has now moved to Australia!

Auntie Mo Next Door's cute little 98K.  At present this is frozen up, but I have plans to see if I can get it working again.

My friend Diane's two old Harris machines, inherited from her mother and grandmother.

The Elna Lotus TSP I gave to the lady who gave me the treadle 66K with the lotus decals, and her Featherweight.  This is such a cute machine, I had to get a similar one for myself...  It started a trend!

This is the Stella Air Electronic, and I really must get one to keep!

My friend Mary's delicious Model 12!  I didn't get to keep this one...