Is there one sewing machine for everthing you want?
 

So for the last couple of days I have been watching videos on different sewing machines that I would like to have. I know I want a sewing machine that is a sewing/embroidery and quilting machine but I haven't found one really. The embroidery machine I have looking at is Brother 6800 which is $360.82 and Juki TL-2010Q High Performance which is 999.00 I found this one I can make payments on. I really like the Janome 8900QCP but couldn't find a place to make payments online to get it. I need some advice on should I just break down and get two different sewing machines? or keep searching for a place online to get a Janome 8900QCP? the reason I say online is because my closes dealer is 2 hours away. I would really like your thoughts on this?
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Looking is fine but I suggest you get to a larger quilt show where dealers will have all sorts of brands that you can test drive. It is like buying a car, you need to test drive and see what works best for you. Have FUN!

I like the old stuff. I'd recommend a Singer 401A as a great all around machine. It doesn't do embroidery though. It doesn't matter to me, I do mine by hand when it comes up.
Rodney

I personally don't like the combination sewing and embroidery machines. I find the straight stitch is not nearly as secure and true if that machine also does embroidery. I own two embroidery only machines and can set them up to sew out a design and let it run while I am doing straight stich sewing on my other machine. My sewing setup consists of my "regular" sewing machine on one table with the two embroidery machines behind me on another table. I can hoop up a design on each of the embroidery machine, if so desired and let them run while I work on a straight stitch machine. When the embroidery machine needs a change of thread etc. I just whirl around on my typing chair and do what is needed, then resume both my embroidery and regular sewing. My projects get done in half the tme.

they have not yet put a machine on the market that does everything i wish it would.
it's a good thing, too.
i could never afford it. LOL LOL LOL

Have you seen the Facebook group that does machine embroidery using vintage machines? It is beautiful. I tried it and my first attempt looked great. No fancy machine needed at all. I have been embroidering up a storm and it hasn't cost me anything but thread and stabilizer. I use an old metal embroidery hoop. The machine I use is an old Singer 99. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1421958014741838/

I was about to buy a very expensive embroidery machine until I tried it. It's much more fun then watching a machine do the work for me. I feel like I am the creator, not the machine.

Interestingly enough, I just printed out the manual for a Singer 99 today. I was surprised when I got to the section describing embroidering on that machine. There is a special throat plate to cover the feed dogs but that's about it.

I adore my dreamweaver combo. It does everything I want it to. There is no feature that I want that it doesn't have

I really prefer separate machines for separate activities. I frequently have my embroidery machine running while I am sewing something else. You can't do that with a combo machine. For quilting, I finally bought a sit down quilter, a Handiquilter Sweet 16. Yes, great quilters can do wonderful work on DSMs, but I can't :-) There is always a compromise in machines that do multiple things. Sometimes you just have to accept the compromise because of space or money, but I would really recommend at least looking at a separate embroidery machine.

Pam

I also prefer a separate embroidery machine. I have the Brother PE 770 for embroidery. It is the perfect machine for me because I'm a beginner with machine embroidery.