Originally Posted by retired2pa
I would think it depends on how much you want (or can) spend on a machine. This is a great web for sewing machine reviews. They are written by the machines owners, not a magazine or anything.
http://sewing.patternreview.com/
Also something to consider. How much embroidery do you think you'll actually do? The reason I'm asking is, I have an embroidery/sewing machine combo. I've had it for 7 years and I love it, BUT I've found that changing it back and forth from embroidery mode to sewing machine mode can be a pain, so I've bought another sewing machine and leave my embroidery unit on my combo machine all the time. I very seldom actually just sew with it. What I'm saying is...it's a lot of money to buy the combo and only use part of it. You might want to consider 2 machines instead of one, big expensive machine. Just MHO :)
Me, too - I bought separate machines for 2 reasons - one was if part of the machine went down (say embroidery), I didn't want to be without a sewing machine; if I wanted to upgrade, concentrating on one or the other was easier - AND as expressed - the tear down in moving from the sewing machine to embroidery mechanism and back. It probably depends on what you are used to. :-)
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