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Originally Posted by GrandmaSewNSew (Post 6604007)

Before getting to the Juki or the Janomi dealers (one 2 hours away), I read a post about the Brother Dreamweaver VQ3000 and found that a dealer not too far away had one. Well, what a great machine, great price, lots of features for the money too. Then I saw the same machine with an embroidery feature and I think this will be the machine for me. I'm still going to go looking at others first especially as I never would have thought to look at this machine before.

I've also read the sewing pattern reviews and among other features, am impressed w the laser light, and the ease of sewing over bulky denim jeans seams! The thought of sewing HST without marking diagonal lines first is fantastic!

Continued success on your quest, and thanks for the update!

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Originally Posted by Colorful1 (Post 6605553)

RE: the laser light! I did get a chance to use it and it is very impressive. You can use it to make those HST as you mentioned and also guide things to the right, left or under your needle. It also has a "pen" which you can use to make the machine stop say 1/4 inch from the end of your binding or anywhere with a certain area. This machine also makes sideways stitches! There were a few times when I was sewing that I thought I wish the machine could just go sideways and I don't remember why now. You can only do it with selected stitches: straight zigzag... I'm not sure if there were more but you could also go at an angle as well.