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Old 02-25-2010, 04:22 PM
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Hello - I am proud (and minus a lot of pennies) of an almost year old Bernina 820. With its large throat and what I consider commerical grade insides, I have already ran past a million stitches of loving it! (Have two other Bernina too) My advice is if you have the funds available and do not want machine embroidery (with computer applications, etc), then save some money and get the Bernina without all the bells and whistles that come with the 830. They are the same machine--one just does not have the hoops and machine embroidery. The 820 has all kinds of patterns within straight stitching, quilting and many others, including numbers and alphabet. Gosh, I should go to work for them as I am sounding like a sales person. It also depends how much you sew. I quilt probably on an average of 4 hours a day, 7 days a week. That is what retirement is all about. Good luck with your choice.
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