Originally Posted by jetnica
Originally Posted by Rhonda
but not for me!! LOL He says it is so he can hem his own pajamas which I keep putting off doing! LOL He also says as the grands are starting to get interested they might need to use it! LOL He did learn to sew in the army and can sew a straight seam but he is too unsteady to do any quilting.
He says it's a back up for when my antique 50's reproduction of an 1850's Singer decides to call it a day!! LOL My Singer is just a sewing machine no frills no extras. However I love my Singer and won't give it up til it gives up the ghost and then I will probably try to revive her!! But in the meantime when I get past some deadlines I look forward to trying out the new Brother!!
This one (I picked it out with him) the feeddogs will go down for free motion quilting! I have never really tried it before. It has alot of embroidery stitchs on it. It is a Brother 5000. It says it is a Project Runway edition. Don't know how good it is but we shall see!
I just got this machine too!! My singer was a $50 black friday special about 10 years ago, and I pushed it to death.
I bought it last weekend, but I just got to play with it tonight...
I finished up my Downy quilt in about an hour (the quilting part) and I finished a UFO in about an hour as well (needed quilted as well)
Make sure you thread the bobbin through that extra little piece outside of the bobbin cover - other than that little step, I have had NO problems so far. I even used one of the "fancy" stitches tonight and had great fun!
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Great! Now I know who to ask questions of!! I won't use it for most stuff but I would like to play around with some fmq on it. I am so used to my Singer that I won't switch permanently til I have to.