Sewing and embroidery machine
05-10-2013, 06:48 PM
#42
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Location: Chula Vista CA
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I have the Janome 6600P for sewing and quilting, I have the Viking Topaz 20 which so far I have used only for embroidery - but it does sew and wonderful for quilting too. If your friend wants to do Disney designs she needs to go with a Brother machine, not sure which one, but it is the only one sanctioned by Disney, so it is something to consider.
05-10-2013, 07:57 PM
#45
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Location: Rocky Mountains
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I think most of us have our favorite brand of machine so she needs to check out several brands. I have been debating on whether I should get into machine embroidery or not. I have been cautioned if and when I buy to remember, if you get 1 machine that does both sewing and embroidery, you can only do 1 thing at a time. If you have 2 machines, you can be sewing while your embroidery machine is working away. Something to think about while shopping.
05-11-2013, 04:58 AM
#47
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Seale, Alabama
Posts: 617
I have a Viking Topaz. If you can afford to get a Ruby or Diamond go for it. They sure do a lot more than the Topaz, but mine is doing all that I can get into right now. A reliable machine. Best to you and enjoy the choice you make. Take classes and grow.
05-11-2013, 06:06 AM
#48
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I noticed that no one has mentioned software for the embroidery part of the embroidering process. I purchased the first embroidery machine that Bernina sold a long time ago. It uses little memory cards. In the last couple of years I purchased a Brother PE780D embroidery machine because it uses both the little memory cards and a USB stick. I have literally thousands of dollars tied up in embroidery software on CDs that I would not be able to access without the USB access. Years ago I purchased a Magic box for that purpose but on my newer desktop computer there is no where to plug in the Magic Box to transfer the designs to the USB stick. I also prefer the separate embroidery and sewing machines as I can get a lot of embroidery done while I am sewing. I was lucky that the Bernina embroidery machine I purchased was created with a Brother patent. That is why the two machines use the same operating system, PES.
05-11-2013, 08:08 AM
#49
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Join Date: Jan 2012
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I started with a Janome Marie Osmond Quilter's Companion and the Janome 200 embroidery machine. LOVE the MO, like the 200 embroidery machine, but found that I wanted to do more than the 4x4 fields. So this spring I splurged and got the Janome 9900 and LOVE it!!! Yes, it's a combo machine, it has a slightly larger throat, but not the 11 inch of some of the others, but it is an awesome machine. I had gone in to demo the 8900 that hubby and I had decided I needed and ended up with the 9900. First thing that I did was to design an embroidery piece in the software. Fun, fun!
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