Stitchnripper

Gosh I am so sorry for starting this whole thing. I just had never seen a black Bernina before. I will now go look at my lovely black vintage singers.

jlhmnj

Poking fun at expensive sewing machines is nothing new:

http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage...ng%3F%3F%3F%3F

Jon

mlmack

So Rodney supposes that the seller may be using drugs and Sew Canada counters by supposing that Rodney may be using drugs.

Judging from all the ire directed at Sew Canada, I'm guessing that in this case, an anonymous supposition is better than a personal one?

soman2

WOW!! I think the 105 to be a beautiful machine. Yesterday my sister, an avid quilter, invited me to a class on sewing placemats and it was a lot of fun. While waiting for the class to start, I walked around the store marveling at all the technology built into these modern machines. For a moment, I thought I was in a new car showroom with machines in the 10k to 15k list prices range and I asked sis am I seeing all right, do these machines really sell for that much. She said she has a Baby Lock (Ellisamo?) and yes they do cost that much. At this class there were 4 Bernina's and I with my vintage Spartan and sis with her 211-1. Not once did we require any technical assistance from the in house tech guy concerning operation of our machines. I guess, like Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty once said, I am a low tech guy in a high tech world! Now, would I pay that much for a machine, even though I can afford it-I think not. It all comes back to the old saying "to each his/her own". Very interesting thread! Chow for now.

Rodney
Ponchatoula, La.

Rodney

I watch the various sewing shows on PBS on Saturday mornings and I watch the hosts of those shows with some of those machines. On the embroidery machines once they have the hoop set up it looks like about all they do is push a button and watch the machine work, I'm guessing at some point they change thread colors as needed too. I'm not quite sure how to word it but basically the machines are so automated that it's a completely different skill set to use one. Instead of manually providing the guidance to the machine you program it and stock it with the materials needed to complete the task. Those machines are more like computers that sew than they are sewing machines with computers inside. Pretty cool technology but for me it would remove too much of the "hands on" aspect of sewing that I enjoy.

While playing around on this thread I did find this site. It has a very nice collection of Bernina models and is worth at least a quick look around.
http://www.sandissewingconnection.com/table-test.htm
Rodney

Stitchnripper

And that will be my future plan.