Advice, please. Husqvarna Viking Sapphire 870 Update 10-3-08 I did it!
04-17-2009, 02:28 PM
#31
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Location: Clay Springs AZ
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Charleen,
I love my machine, the only thing I really would have liked to have is a stitch regulator, and a thread cutter.
My repair shop is a H. Viking so they know the machines inside out.
I took lessons when I bought the machine at Joanns but you forget most of it if you dont use it often.
There is another forum entry about the 830 and someone gave a website with videos of what to do with it and I downloaded them. It wasnt but last week sometime that it was posted.
I love my machine, the only thing I really would have liked to have is a stitch regulator, and a thread cutter.
My repair shop is a H. Viking so they know the machines inside out.
I took lessons when I bought the machine at Joanns but you forget most of it if you dont use it often.
There is another forum entry about the 830 and someone gave a website with videos of what to do with it and I downloaded them. It wasnt but last week sometime that it was posted.
04-17-2009, 05:23 PM
#32
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: British Columbia
Posts: 8,050
I got the 870 for Xmas and it does have the thread cutter. It was an option I've always wanted....that said.... consider this... when you get to your " ending" spot..... you still have to "fix" or stitch in one place..... then when you hit the thread cutter button it pulls the thread through to the back & cuts it one inch long. IF you haven't fixed the thread it is now too short to knot & thread a needle & weave into the batting.... IF you have fixed your stitching.....you cut your thread & it leaves this little tied off piece on the backing. It's not too noticeable if your threads are matching..(or if you've used a busy fabric on the backing) .but if you have a light thread on top & dark thread on bottom or vice versa....it doesn't look so great.......SO ....... maybe, just maybe .... the old fashioned way of pulling your thread to the top....tying off......etc. is really neater and perhaps the better way??? I don't know....but it's all a learning curve. Now that I have this machine I'm trying to use it alot & figure things out....but I feel alot of it's options are more beneficial to the people who had enough money to purchase the machines with the same body but with the machine embroidery attachment....JMHO
04-17-2009, 09:31 PM
#34
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Central Washington State
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Originally Posted by Rose Marie
Charleen,
I love my machine, the only thing I really would have liked to have is a stitch regulator, and a thread cutter.
My repair shop is a H. Viking so they know the machines inside out.
I took lessons when I bought the machine at Joanns but you forget most of it if you dont use it often.
There is another forum entry about the 830 and someone gave a website with videos of what to do with it and I downloaded them. It wasnt but last week sometime that it was posted.
I love my machine, the only thing I really would have liked to have is a stitch regulator, and a thread cutter.
My repair shop is a H. Viking so they know the machines inside out.
I took lessons when I bought the machine at Joanns but you forget most of it if you dont use it often.
There is another forum entry about the 830 and someone gave a website with videos of what to do with it and I downloaded them. It wasnt but last week sometime that it was posted.
http://www.husqvarnaviking.com/us/8681.htm
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