Singer Futura SEQS-6000
#2
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Alturas, CA
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Personally, I wouldn't buy any kind of new Singer, an old one, yes. If you want a lower end machine, I would go with a Brother or Janome, they have a pretty good reputation, even on the low end, my opinion.
#4
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Western Wisconsin
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I personally wouldn't buy a modern Singer machine. I did find these reviews on Amazon of what I think is a machine similar to the one you are looking at:
http://www.amazon.com/XL-550-Compute...ws/B008DM2QBI/
http://www.amazon.com/XL-550-Compute...ws/B008DM2QBI/
#5
Run don't walk! My sister bought one from HSN. She couldn't get it to work at all other than to sew. I told her I would help her with the embroidery part. I was staying with her on my vacation so we could go to Quilt Expo. We spent 9 hours trying to get that machine to embroider a built in design! I told her it was not her, it was the machine. We went to quilt Expo and she bought a TOL Brother machine. We brought it home, opened the book, read the instructions and had a onsie embroidered within an hour.
Aside from the fact that it was not at all user friendly, it was also very cheaply made. The thread guides were so bad - they looked like a guide you'd find on a battery operated toy machine. Save your sanity and your money.
Aside from the fact that it was not at all user friendly, it was also very cheaply made. The thread guides were so bad - they looked like a guide you'd find on a battery operated toy machine. Save your sanity and your money.
#6
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: My Sewing Room
Posts: 1,180
I don't completely disagree with what the others have said about new singers. I had a Singer Futura 350 sewing/embroidery machine for a while and it wouldn't embroider correctly. Eventually I got fed up and told the dealer I either wanted my money back or a machine that worked. They offered to discount a newer model (also Singer) and my husband decided to get it. I've had it about a year and so far I can't complain. It is a Singer xl-400. I only use it for embroidery, or for those times when I need a fancy stitch. I'm sure there are other more capable machines out there, but this one just happened to be within the budget. Maybe I just got lucky this time.
#7
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 81
I have a Futura from a few years ago (150, 250, can't remember) that I bought for a steal. My thought was, if I hated it, I wasn't out the thousands of bucks on an embroidery machine. About six years later and it sews like butter, love it. The embroidery aspect and I are never going to be besties though. As in, I can't even get it to work, let alone do I know if it embroiders nice or not. I have friends with Brothers machines that have no complaints and I'm debating one of those in a couple years.
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