Singer 9960
02-20-2020, 12:37 AM
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Singer 9960
Hey Howdy Hey Kiddies,
Had to get a new machine for work and fun. I've got like 6 or so but every time I buy a new nice machine after a decade or so they need to be replaced. Sent my old Elna in for service... it came out working but was so loud and abnoxious I could tell it was hollering for it's pasture. It's headed to the barn, serves it right.
JoAnn's has a sale on machines with free shipping so I got me a Singer 9960 after checking reviews. Wow! What a machine! I barely need to do anything. The old one, you had to hang on to the fabric for dear life as it felt like it was wiggling on oil. This one moves by itself and barely needs to be held.
No thread wasted at all as it cuts my itself when I’m not chain piecing for making strip sets.
The old one, had to have the fabric an eighth of an inch to a quarter of an inch beyond the needle in the sewing line for it sew. When you didn’t have it in there it made a big huge bunch of threads under in the bobbin compartment which had to by pulled and cut out. Or it would cut the top thread which would pop back up and unthread. My eyes are bad, needle threader was broken so I needed to use a separate one. This one, it starts sewing with no fabric in there under the presser foot!! at all!! and it pulls the fabric so that I can sew, long, lovely stripes of pieced items. It the end it cuts both threads with very tiny tails.
This machines going to save major amounts of time and make my life,,, so much easier. I’m in love.
Took me an hour to learn how to thread it and get the 1/4" seam allowance, can you say? "Old dog, new tricks?" After I got sewing, I swear,,, it was like the fabric was just flying out, smooth, quiet. One very happy customer.
Tomorrow I'm going to bind my Froggy quilt and try to get completely caught up with my QAL. I can't wait to get caught up on my commission quilt so that I can start to create eyelet laces and make poet blouses that are all prettily trimmed. So thoroughly sold on my new machine. And from now on,,, no more $130 servicing for me. I'm just going to replace them. This one is like night and day from the old and it was just about $200 more then the service fee. Shesh! This old dog will learn, period.
Had to get a new machine for work and fun. I've got like 6 or so but every time I buy a new nice machine after a decade or so they need to be replaced. Sent my old Elna in for service... it came out working but was so loud and abnoxious I could tell it was hollering for it's pasture. It's headed to the barn, serves it right.
JoAnn's has a sale on machines with free shipping so I got me a Singer 9960 after checking reviews. Wow! What a machine! I barely need to do anything. The old one, you had to hang on to the fabric for dear life as it felt like it was wiggling on oil. This one moves by itself and barely needs to be held.
No thread wasted at all as it cuts my itself when I’m not chain piecing for making strip sets.
The old one, had to have the fabric an eighth of an inch to a quarter of an inch beyond the needle in the sewing line for it sew. When you didn’t have it in there it made a big huge bunch of threads under in the bobbin compartment which had to by pulled and cut out. Or it would cut the top thread which would pop back up and unthread. My eyes are bad, needle threader was broken so I needed to use a separate one. This one, it starts sewing with no fabric in there under the presser foot!! at all!! and it pulls the fabric so that I can sew, long, lovely stripes of pieced items. It the end it cuts both threads with very tiny tails.
This machines going to save major amounts of time and make my life,,, so much easier. I’m in love.
Took me an hour to learn how to thread it and get the 1/4" seam allowance, can you say? "Old dog, new tricks?" After I got sewing, I swear,,, it was like the fabric was just flying out, smooth, quiet. One very happy customer.
Tomorrow I'm going to bind my Froggy quilt and try to get completely caught up with my QAL. I can't wait to get caught up on my commission quilt so that I can start to create eyelet laces and make poet blouses that are all prettily trimmed. So thoroughly sold on my new machine. And from now on,,, no more $130 servicing for me. I'm just going to replace them. This one is like night and day from the old and it was just about $200 more then the service fee. Shesh! This old dog will learn, period.
