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Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply wrote:
Kate Dicey wrote: For serious professional sewing I use the Lily. Brilliant machine - love it! But I will NEVER get rid of the old treadles! And I have a Featherweight waiting for me... I hope! You *DO*????? How exciting!!!!!! Or are you speaking figuratively? I hope not! One was offered - free to good home, will be posted, must USE! I accepted like a flash, and am just waiting for me new best friend to post it on! She's in the throws of packing to move, and I needed to recover from the gall bladder op... And at the moment I'm up to me oxters in bridesmaids! -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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The final straw was the Janome rep at the NEC NOT letting me try the machine for myself, pushing the embroidery machine (at twice my stated budget!), and then, when she asked me what others I'd been looking at, walking off with a short sharp sigh of impatience when I mentioned Bernina and Husqvarna! Cor blimeys!! Sounds like a car salesman or a real estate salesman!! I tried them in other shops around the country, floor demo models and ones out of the box, and they were all very disappointing. The Berninas and Husqvarnas were all lovely. In the end I chose my Lily because it felt like it had been tailor made for my fingers! The Bernina rep at the show said he thought I'd choose one or the other on final fit, and he was right. ALL the reps except the Janome rep were more than happy for me to look at their machines, play with them, and talk to them, an none tried to push a sale except her! The rest all thought I'd do very well to buy locally. The Janome rep was pushing for me to buy then and there. If one is expecting to spend a small fortune on a machine, then one should be able to play etc to ones hearts content.. The Janome rep was killing her own business.. silly woman! The friend who bought the dozen lower end ones (one or two up from the bottom) thought they were the best machines in her price bracket, despite having bought the Bernina embroidery machine two years earlier because her experience with Janomes was much like my own! I'm glad people do find good Janomes: for the price, they SHOULD be good! I just have yet to find one I'd give house room to! Can't say I have ever tried a Janome.. but I know what you mean about the plasticiness of some machines.. Appalling! Mavis |
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AmazeR wrote:
Can't say I have ever tried a Janome.. but I know what you mean about the plasticiness of some machines.. Appalling! Mavis I had much the same tactile experience with Brother machines: if I wanted something in that budget to mid price bracket, I'd be looking for a Husky Star or a Toyota, both of which seem to be much sturdier for the price. As it is, I'll stick with the Lily and my growing collection of pre '64 Singers! Silver Viscount also look good for the money in the lower to mid range. My old Viscount (about 12 stitches, bought second hand after the Cub died) is a great machine, and has retired to live with my mother. It's available should I ever need to borrow it back. Stupid thing is, I gave Ma all the bobbins i had for it, and it, like the older Berninas, uses the type 15 bobbin... Now I have the singer 15-88, I had to buy a new collection of those bobbins! AAARRGH! It's funny how these things take you: the friend who bought the sooper-dooper Bernina bought the Huskylock 935... My machine man's daughter bought the Designer I, but preferred the Bernina serger! -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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Kate Dicey wrote:
I had much the same tactile experience with Brother machines: if I wanted something in that budget to mid price bracket, I'd be looking for a Husky Star or a Toyota, both of which seem to be much sturdier for the price. As it is, I'll stick with the Lily and my growing collection of pre '64 Singers! Silver Viscount also look good for the money in the lower to mid range. My old Viscount (about 12 stitches, bought second hand after the Cub died) is a great machine, and has retired to live with my mother. It's available should I ever need to borrow it back. Stupid thing is, I gave Ma all the bobbins i had for it, and it, like the older Berninas, uses the type 15 bobbin... Now I have the singer 15-88, I had to buy a new collection of those bobbins! AAARRGH! Look for old 15 type bobbins in charity shops and boot sales. Some old machines hate the plastic bobbins, and the new metal ones are made differently. Some old machines will tolerate them, others will not. But generally, the price is better for the old ones, too. At times the new metal ones can be made to work, with a bit of filing and sanding, but who wants to put that kind of work in on a bobbin? -- Joanne @ stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/ Life is about the journey, not about the destination. |
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Look for old 15 type bobbins in charity shops and boot sales. Some old machines hate the plastic bobbins, and the new metal ones are made differently. Some old machines will tolerate them, others will not. But generally, the price is better for the old ones, too. At times the new metal ones can be made to work, with a bit of filing and sanding, but who wants to put that kind of work in on a bobbin? You are right there! No one I know would even consider going to that much trouble to get a bobbin working!! I must remember to tell my mother not to throw any out - LOL. What am I saying? She never throws anything out! Mavis |
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