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Sewing Machine Recommendations Please
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i am thinking of buying a new home sewing machine
i'm not looking to spend a lot and will probably look for one on ebay
i am looking for a versatile one that does lots of stuff, lots of stitches and facilities etc
it will not have heavy use but i want to have lots of options of what i can do with it.
any ideas?
thanks
i'm not looking to spend a lot and will probably look for one on ebay
i am looking for a versatile one that does lots of stuff, lots of stitches and facilities etc
it will not have heavy use but i want to have lots of options of what i can do with it.
any ideas?
thanks
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.When you say "new" I will assume you mean new to you but not unused. My wife has two Elna machines, one a Lotus and it is small enough to have been carried abroad when we both travelled on my work assignments. The other is larger and heavier, a model 1000. Both are robust and well built have provided excellent service, they are Swiss designed and I think the latter may have been made in Japan whereas the Lotus is Swiss made. The former has had probably three professional service maintenance sessions over almost 40 years of use and just recently I installed in it a replacement motor. The second was bought more recently on eBay for around £50 and because it was going to benefit from it I did some oiling, adjustments and replaced the spool winding wheel - it is brilliant.