Thread: Help!!! Shopping for new sewing machine. What kind do you suggest.?

There are no perfect machines out there that I've been able to find. Your best bet is to try and find a machine that will work for the type of stitching you do. There is no point spending lots of $ to buy an embroidery machine if you never embroider. If you're quilting heavy duty animal crate pads you don't want a small lightweight machine. I have two Juki's a TL98Q and the newer Exceed HZL600. Between the two of them, I can do everything I need to do. The TL98Q is fast and powerful, only straight stitches and handles heavy layers and FM quilts beautifully with a throat big enough to handle a king sized quilt. The Exceed has lots of fancy stitches, a wonderful easy to use thread threader and cutter and pieces well. Both machines are not picky about thread and you could buy both new for $2500 Canadian. For me, these machines work better and were less expensive than buying a Bernina or top of the line Janome. Decide what features you need and then take fabric samples and try out the models before laying down your cash.

For me brother/babylock and juki would be my first choice simply because you can get a great machine without shelling out a lot of money and they sew great. My walmart brother SQ-9050 sews through anything and has always sewn beautifully. It is about 4 years never one issue still sews like a champ. personally I have never gone to any of the shows looking for machines so don't know whats available. Almost every brand should have something in different spectrums of price worth seeing. I have sewn on singer, brother, babylock, viking, and bernina and still love my brothers and have loyally stuck with them or babylock if amazingly by chance you get one cheaper than a brother as I did almost 6 years ago on my first high end before I upgraded. I could go on and on about my dreamweaver but not sure what your budget is so don't want to suggest things that maybe you are not interested in

Im going to really look into trying test runs on some these machines. I had called Singer this morning and she said it could be an internal problem and a tension problem for my machine, so that was the bad news this morning. But to buy one its gonna have to wait a bit as this morning I got some good news . I will be moving into my apt. soon so that means some extra expenses.
I really want to Thank Everyone for your help and suggestions.
I will let you know when I decide to buy my new machine.

I love my janome. I hope to upgrade some day. I really want the 15000