How to Buy a Sewing Machine

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Rebecca and I'm going to talk about how to buy a sewing machine. So there are several things that you need to think about when choosing out a sewing machine. The first thing the most important thing to me is the action, how well does the needle go up and down while your sewing? Is it nice and smooth or is it clunky? Clunky's probably not the best. Is it quiet? Some sewing machines while they might have good action while they're sewing they make too much noise and that can be annoying. The other thing to think about when buying a sewing machine is what features you would like to have on it? Do you need a lot of a fancy features or are you happy with just the basics and you can buy higher quality machine but maybe with less features. Another thing to check out is how to make a button hole. Some machines make it very easy and some machines make it very difficult and some machines may not offer the option at all and you'd have to make it up yourself. Another thing you would have to check out is how the sewing machine sews in reverse. What do you have to do to make it sew in reverse? If it's a button you have to push, sometimes the buttons after a while will wear out and then it will be difficult to get the reverse stitch to happen while pushing down the button. Still a good rule of thumb when picking out a sewing machine is the more solid the machine is, the more metal parts that are in it, the better it is going to serve you. It will last longer and it will break less. Now if the casing itself is plastic, that can be okay that's just what goes around but, everything inside needs to be nice and durable and the less buttons and plastic parts that you have to deal with, the less trouble you are going to have with those. So the best advice I could give when thinking about buying a sewing is buy the highest quality you can afford, and maybe lose some of the seemingly fancy features in return for good quality action and just overall durability."