Originally Posted by Quilty-Louise
Originally Posted by drivingsusan
The Brother that you are looking at ONLY has a 4X4 hoop!
That will limit you greatly!
I agree, try to go for the largest hoop size machine
you can afford. A 4x4 is very limiting.
I bought a Singer FuturaXL-400 about 6 weeks, it has two hoops one 4x4 and one 6x10 for larger peices. I can't say enough good things about this machine. I bought it from a dealer, please buy from a dealer not from HSN, The dealers will give you lessons to help you learn to use the machine correctly. One more peice of information everyone should know these machines need to be cleaned and oiled regularly. I worked with commercial machines for 15 years, commercial techs recommend cleaning and oiling bobbin area every 4 to 6 hours of sewing, if heavy duty commercial machines need this much care, I would think these smaller machines would need at least this much care. Maggie