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List Price: $449.00
Best Price: $149.00 (refurbished)
Availability: Refurbished (1)
Brand: Brother
Model: CS6000T

Customer Review

Super Beginner's Machine!
by Customer A276OI0NHBYORX at August 01st, 2006
I'm impulsive. And yesterday I decided to pick up sewing.

Now, I wouldn't even qualify as high up as a "beginner" - yesterday morning I didn't know what a sewing pedal or bobbin was for - I had never touched a sewing machine in my life. The most I had done was hand-sew buttons or hems or small rips. Seriously.

But I got this crazy idea that I wanted to start "real" sewing. So I looked at some reviews on Amazon, and then bought the CS6000t at Walmart, along with thread, some fabric, a pack of buttons, and a couple of easy-to-sew patterns. I read parts of the CS6000t manual, but not the whole thing. Last night - that is, the same day I impulsively bought this machine - I completed a simple fleece jacket (which required going through 4 layers of thick fleece at times) for my mom. It's actually wearable and looks store bought.

Many (most) people reading this review are not beginners - though perhaps some of you are. Either way, if I could figure out how to set this machine up - including getting the bobbin in, threading the needle, picking my stiches, etc ... then anyone can.

This machine talks of the easy bobbin. I guess other machines are more complicated. But I just followed the instructions - put the empty bobbin on one stick, and the thread on another. Start the thread, then pedal until the bobbin is full. Then open a cover on the bottonm, drop in the bobbin, and you're done. No bottom threading is required (though, of course I have no idea what bottom threading would entail, and whether it's a pain).

I've already played with about 30 of the 101 stitches. I haven't tried to change the foot as is required to try out the other stitches. But the stitches of the ones I've tried - some of them have seemed really intricate and complicated. I don't know what the seriously expensive machines can do, but it sure seems like this machine can do anything.

In sum - a total non-sewer got this machine set up, used many of the stitches, and completed a project without any problems, and without encountering a single error beyond a beep telling me that I had to put the foot down before stitching.

Yay for this machine! If only there was a comparable machine to clean my house.

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