Sewing Machine Operation
Help me pick a good sewing machine?
I’m planning on buying a sewing machine, but I don’t know what kind to get. I want the best deal for my money. I don’t need anything fancy; i just need reliability, smooth and easy to understand operation, and a decent price. Any suggestions?
I will be using this sewing machine for small craft projects, blankets, and clothing. All feedback is highly appreciated! Thanks!
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IMHO, $200 is about the rock bottom for a new machine — in that range, look at the Janome Jems and the newish Janome that’s about the same price but a better buttonholer. I’d like to see you get a machine with a very good straight stitch, a good zigzag, a buttonholer that doesn’t drive you nuts, and possibly a blindhem stitch. It also should have adjustable presser foot pressure, stitch lengths at least in the 1-5mm range (some cheapie machines don’t have adjustable stitch lengths!), and it shouldn’t vibrate like crazy if you’re sewing “pedal to the metal”.
Even if you don’t have any need to sew that fast.
Please, please try a few machines from some of the better makers (Bernina, Pfaff, Viking, Elna, Janome) that are out of your price range, so you can see how easy sewing can be and what a well put together machine sews like. You don’t have to buy one, you don’t even have to lust for one, but it helps to know what a properly engineered machine feels like. It’s too easy to learn to hate sewing because you accidentally bought a crummy machine and don’t know that you should trade it in. BTDT. Or you may discover that some maker’s machines are easy for you to understand, and another maker’s make you feel like you’ve got 10 thumbs on each hand. (I seem to have the Viking/Pfaff mindset — it’s not that other machines aren’t good, it’s that we just aren’t sympatico.
The real bargains are in the used machines, which you’ll find at sewing machine repair shops mostly — or check John Giordano’s Sewing Machine Book for suggestions on good used machines to watch for. A high end mechanical machine 20 years old could still be sewing at the end of the century. And it could be sewing well.
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