I personally own four sewing machines.
- A Singer portable, about 50 years old (it has a name, but I don't
remember it just now)
- Another heavy duty Singer, treadle converted to 1/3-hp electric motor
- My Grandmother's turn of the Century (1900, not 200) White treadle
converted to electric in the 1920's
- And a European brand electric multi-stitch I bought 20 years ago.

My mother was a seamstress, so I was taught at a very early age how to
sew by hand then with a machine. My mother put together a small sewing
kit that I took with me to school. The kids laughed until one of them
need a button sewn on one cold day during the winter so he could go out
for recess.