Sewing machine for a child
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I am thinking of buying a new sewing machine for my 11 year old granddaughter. She has very little experience, just a little sewing with me, and a class on sewing a pillowcase I have an old Elna 1400 that I bought used a long time ago that I planned on using for her, but it not currently working. I am looking at the CS6000i Brother for her. Do you have any thoughts or suggestions.
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I started teaching sewing to children after school over 6 years ago and was looking for machines to use. This brother 6000i was on my list. I ended up with janome 7330. These are awesome machines! I have eight! I've gone from one class of eight students to eight classes of five students. Currently I have four days/classes of 6 students. My machines are still going strong. Every year a couple of students get sewing machines for Christmas. A few years ago a student got the brother 6000i. I had the mom bring it in to help teach her daughter how to use it. Lets just say you get what you pay for. It looks great but it is a plastic-inside machine. It is very light weight, easily half the weight of my janomes. The problem with these kinds of machines is tension goddess wacko easily. I would not recommend it.
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Regarding Brother machines - I can't speak to the one you mention but I have 4 basic Brother machines 2 at my house and one at each of my sons. They have never and I mean never had a tension issue. They sew right out of the box and sew through anything including fake fur. I am speaking from my own personal experience with these machines. And I'm talking low end. My oldest one is about 15 years old. Newest is about 4 years old.
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we(my DDs and I) have several different Brother models from WM. They are good little machines, I have sewn thru layers of decorator fabric with a 6000i without issue. I would not hesitate to buy another-in fact I probably will be buying another soon cause oldest GD has taken an interest in sewing.
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I started teaching sewing to children after school over 6 years ago and was looking for machines to use. This brother 6000i was on my list. I ended up with janome 7330. These are awesome machines! I have eight! I've gone from one class of eight students to eight classes of five students. Currently I have four days/classes of 6 students. My machines are still going strong.
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