I love the ease of changing a project right on the machine and the ability to purchase licensed images from iBroidery.com. For my first project I chose the Bounty Hunter logo (as seen in The Mandalorian) and it took up most of my 4×4 hoop. I’ll admit that I struggled a little getting the fabric and stabilizer even in the hoop but eventually I got the hang of it.
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The one maddening flaw that I found is that its backstitch function is agonizingly slow if you (like myself and almost every other sewist I’ve ever seen) tend to take your foot off the pedal and stop your needle before going into reverse mode. It simply plods if you pause before hitting the reverse-stitch button, but it maintains speed if you live on the edge and push the button while still sewing forward. If you can sigh your way through that—and you’ll need to, since you typically have to backstitch a few stitches at the beginning and the brother scan and cut end of every seam to secure it—you should be all set with the Quantum Stylist for years to come. The default depth of the Quantum Stylist’s sewing surface is much larger (8 inches to the CS7000X’s 6 inches), and the free-arm option is smaller (3.5 inches to the CS7000X’s 4 inches), which makes it that much easier to fit fiddly little projects. For this guide, we focused on machines that cost $500 or less and were simple enough for beginners to use but had features and options that more advanced sewists might be able to take advantage of.
But regardless of the impetus for learning, the benefits of knowing your way around a sewing machine are manifold. It’s undeniably useful—not to mention particularly satisfying—to be able to hem, repair, or even entirely design and create your own fabric goods. Sewing can be a great way to make new friends, since there’s an active and generally friendly online sewing community to connect with. And the health benefits of having a hobby, regardless of what it is, have been documented time and time again. In most cases, the largest difference is which designs are included on each respective brand. The two brands work closely together, and they produce some of the finest embroidery machines on the market.
With your choice of included embroidery frames, especially the new and exclusive mini frames, your embroidery options are endless including embroidering your favorite Disney characters from ibroidery.com on caps. If you’re capitalizing on the current embroidery trends and selling your designs on Etsy or other online sites, this multi-needle embroidery machine from Janome is worth the investment. You can thread the seven needle heads in advance for quicker embroidery speeds with multiple colors.