How to Buy a Sewing Machine

LeahDay

Leah Day has been teaching online since 2009. She's the creator of the Free Motion Quilting Project, a blog filled with thousands of quilting tutorial videos. Leah has written several books including 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day, and Mally the Maker and the Queen in the Quilt.

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  1. I think the first step is to analyze what you like to do. No point in buying features you won't use. I love my Bernina because of the snap on feet, it's the bottom of the range, but I don't do embroidery, so it does everything I want. The more I did FMQ the more I liked it, so I've just bought a Handi Quilter Sweet 16 and am swooning over it. I'm blogging about my first month with it here, and include a special shout out to you, because you taught me to FMQ!
    http://liveanddyecolor.blogspot.com/2015/12/handi-quilter-sweet-sixteen-day-4.html

  2. Jen Barnard says:

    I bought a previous sewing machine on the internet and it was good at first, but soon became a nightmare. I took it to my local shop to see if they could fix it for me, but they said they didn't touch that line because once they broke they were almost impossible to fix – they didn't have to say that, they could have made money from me though. What impressed me most was that they didn't then try to sell me another machine. I went back a few months later to buy a new machine and they did all the things you said, teaching me how to use it and showing me all of the features and were very friendly and helpful. They also gave me a reduced rate on my first service because it was only a year old. Customer service like that really is worth a great deal.

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