Sewing, Repairing and Reducing Waste

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Finding a good beginner sewing machine (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by MSBBritain@lemmy.world to c/sewingrepairing@sh.itjust.works

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Hi everyone!

Not sure if this is the right place but I've been looking to buy a sewing machine recently and haven't really been sure about what to get or what to look out for.

Does anyone have any recommendations? I've used some before, but never owned one. Don't know what a good budget might be but I'm happy to spend a couple hundred if need be? Some googling seems to show that to be reasonable, but I'm not sure if I'm getting ripped off (on either quality or price).

Thanks for any advice!

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[–] emberinmoss@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Hello, not the wrong place to ask at all.

The Singer Heavy Duty sewing machine is one of your best choices if you decide to get a more recent model. Newer sewing machines are notoriously built like crap (which i personally think is done on purpose to try to screw us over so that we will give up and buy retail clothing), and the Singer Heavy Duty just works like a proper sewing machine. You can sew thick materials. For example if you wanted to repair a hole in your backpack, you could do it with this. I tried using a cheaper "beginners" sewing machine and it lasted about a month before the needle got messed up. I'd been using pretty light material too. It was in 2020 and I was attempting to make masks at home. Managed to make two before the stupid machine gave out. The Singer Heavy Duty machine is easy to use, it's just more sturdy.

[–] MSBBritain@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Perfect, thanks a lot!

From this and the other responses it seem like old beats new is a good rule of thumb on this.

I'll check some thrift shops or similar places, and if I can't find anything I'll look into getting a Heavy Duty!

Thanks a lot for the help!