Love the tote! And keeping your new baby warm in the winter!
Thanks for the review. It's nice to add another budget machine to the list of recommended "first" machines. As much as I love the reliability of vintage machines, I think learning to sew while also learning to care for a vintage at the same time could be a bit much for most newcomers to the sewing world. Especially so, when many literally know no one to receive guidance from as the craft mostly skipped an entire generation.
Good sewing to you!
Thank you Esme866.
I much prefer my vintages as I know how to repair, upkeep and service them apart from sewing on a piece of history that is silent in operation.
As you say, complete newbies do not know the first thing about machines.
I have watched you tubes of newbies even with the above machine making a total Horlix of threading it and assuming the button hole symbols were special stitches in their own right!!!
Also that there are Two threads!!!
( thank you Alias Howe) who invented the lock stitch and was a pain in the side to Issac M Singer who used the idea ( very expensively).
Oh dear....it was painful but bless them they just did not know.
I think machine manuals should be more comprehensive and standardised to help them.
Ie....and including linked videos.
Where and when to use straight stitch.
How to sew a basic hem.
When to use zig zag and why.
Clear instructions on how to sew a button hole.
They assume the newbies know.
For the price the machine is excellent and not too much of an outlay if sewing is not their forte.
Pete