I use my Pfaff 1475 machine for buttonholes, although my Kenmore zig-zag
machine can make them (but they aren't as crisp and nice--and it's all a
manual task), and the Pfaff offers 8 different styles in addition to
being able to tweak the size. Of course my Elegante embroidery machine
makes incre
The Bernina 1008 is a solid, no-frills workhorse. The sewing machine
store tried to upsell me a fancier model of Bernina on the grounds that
those make better buttonholes, but since I was having the Viking
restored I stuck with my choice of the 1008.
No machine is perfect, but I still have a
I've got two machines myself although I'm not sure I count the one much
anymore. A White Rotary straight stitcher, and my son for the holiday
bought me a Brother SE-400, the Project Runway version, that does
embroidery and sews, pretty nice hybrid. Hoop is small, so I'm out of it
for some of the re
s possible with
the buttonhole attachment. My old Kenmore has a buttonhole attachment, but it
isn't the kind with the drop-in cams, so I'm limited to 5 sizes.
Ann Wass
-Original Message-
From: Lavolta Press
To: Historical Costume
Sent: Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:07 pm
Subject: [h-cos
I still keeping thinking about getting an embroidery-sewing machine, and
if I did, I would probably leave it set up for embroidery and use my
Bernina for sewing. However, I have been hesitating for a long time
because machine embroidery is a whole new craft and I want to make sure
I am committe
