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Singer 1000+ stitches on HSN...
JillyBean333   Intermediate MN USA Member since 2007 Posts: 933	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 1/30/12 9:02 PM I was looking at this Singer with 1000+ stitches on HSN: It's here: http://www.hsn.com/crafts-sewing/singer-1000-stitches-computerized-sewing-machine-with-value-added-package_p-6688982_xp.aspx Has anyone seen this one and do you know anything about it? Thanks for any advice. I'm trying to find something new that will sew through some really thick stuff and makes a really nice stitch. This one looks nice, but of course everything on HSN looks nice.Unless I find something really fabulous I'll just be keeping what I have. I think the Singers are probably fine since they are being made by the same place as the Janomes and Vikings. Can't find any kind of reviews on this. It must be some kind of HSN special. ------ JillyBean http://craftysupreme.etsy.com
Maia B Advanced Beginner IL USA Member since 2010 Posts: 1855	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 1/30/12 9:58 PM Viking, Pfaff, and Singer are owned by the same company. I don't think Janome has any connection to Singer. I've got no personal experience with HSN, but I've read that they have a favorable return policy. ------ Berninas 820 QE, Artista 630 PQE, Aurora 440 QE, Activa 240, 930 Record, and 731 Baby Lock Quest Plus, Featherweight 221s...
beauturbo Advanced CA USA Member since 2009 Posts: 518	Login to reply to this post In reply to JillyBean333 Like this post Date: 1/30/12 10:30 PM It's the same as the Singer h74 machine here: http://www.singerco.com/products/2189/h74 The header on the HSN adverstisement of "1000 stitches" means not much at all and it is probably pretty bogus and missleading to state it that quite that way. They even know that, there on HSN, as on HSN they later add, and they later backpedal, with smaller print down below at bit, and say "310 True stitches" instead Here is it's instruction book to read and you can actually see all stitch motifs and sequences there, no place to hide any of them at all. http://www.singerco.com/uploads/download/d959d7a7944e4b39fd5206053068b7b0508db6c8.pdf If you read that one, then you will see there are even way less what most people would consider "stitches" than even 310. Because only 126 "stitches as in stitch patterns" even if you count varying stitch position on just a straight stitch. Any others or anything else adding up to 1000 at all, is just the same ones flipped or reversed plus each letter and number in the 2 separate fonts they have for 2 alphabets and numbers 0-9 and punctuation marks. So a # of "stitch functions" on any machine, really does not mean much at all ever, sometimes just any letter of an alphabet, and also any stitch, just revesed or flipped in any direction. But if they actually say "stitch functions" instead for a machine, as long as you can flip, rotate or reverse or re-resize anything, then most times that is fair game to call it a separate "stitch function" and add it into some count for that.
sew2006 Advanced ON CANADA Member since 2006 Posts: 1300	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 1/30/12 11:08 PM I once questioned Sears about the 100 stitch functions on a machine that was a straight and zig zag machine. You could adjust the lenght and width of the stitch. They responded that with each change of a foot the machine could do a different task, straight stitch a hem, sew in a zipper, baste, quilt...........well you get the idea. If you actually decide to get one of these....make sure you do a lot of testing as soon as it arrives. I've come across a lot of the newer Singer's in doing classes and the're no where near the strenght of other brands. Then there's the NOISE they make. ------ Janome10001, Babylock ESG3, Brother ULT 2001, White 634D serger, Pfaff 1472, Singer featherweight, Singer 14T957Dc,
Padmé Member since 2006 Posts: 1494	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 1/31/12 9:35 AM Yes. I have a straight stitch, zigzag machine and it's listed as a 17 stitch machine.
Maia B Advanced Beginner IL USA Member since 2010 Posts: 1855	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 1/31/12 9:40 AM My favorite is when each needle position is considered a new stitch...so 3 needle positions times straight stitch and three widths of zig-zag equals 12 stitches. ------ Berninas 820 QE, Artista 630 PQE, Aurora 440 QE, Activa 240, 930 Record, and 731 Baby Lock Quest Plus, Featherweight 221s...
JillyBean333   Intermediate MN USA Member since 2007 Posts: 933	Login to reply to this post In reply to beauturbo Like this post Date: 1/31/12 10:01 AM Hi Everyone, Yeah, I knew it didn't have 1000 stitches...but everything always seems to work so well when they are showing it.Hee glad I wasn't up at 2am and saw this (when my resistance is super low). I think I will still stay away from the Singers. I'm sure they are oodles better than they were around the Earlier part of the 2000's. Anyway, I just need to learn to use what I have and instead of thinking it should adapt to me...I need to adapt to it. ------ JillyBean http://craftysupreme.etsy.com
beauturbo Advanced CA USA Member since 2009 Posts: 518	Login to reply to this post In reply to JillyBean333 Like this post Date: 1/31/12 1:05 PM I don't know about that. I have some excellent and very nice and were very expensive, actually into the multi thousand $ each, kind of Singer machines from the early 2000's and they are still wonderful and wonderful made machines. And sew great, and I think still could give any new machine, any place a pretty good race for being well made and tons of functions, no matter how much that new machine might cost today. They are for sure, way better made and were just very much more expensive even in early years of the 2000's than that today's HSN machine you were looking at, no comparison at all. So I don't think it's really ever the exact Brand of machine, or particular year of a machine ever that makes something nice or made the most expensively at all. I think you just have to look at it, more individual just each and every machine by machine each time.
Learn To Sew   Advanced Beginner WA USA Member since 2005 Posts: 5247	Login to reply to this post In reply to JillyBean333 Like this post Date: 1/31/12 1:20 PM Singer 1000 stitches Looks like the H 74 to me. -- Edited on 1/31/12 1:22 PM -- ------ I enjoy quilting as it calms my mind Bernina 630 / no embroidery module Pfaff 2036 Babylock Molly Bernina 1200DA serger
karen149   Intermediate CA USA Member since 2005 Posts: 1945	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 1/31/12 3:17 PM Here's the details from the HSN site: 310 true stitches 2 built-in alphabets, block and script, in uppercase and lowercase 10 fully automatic one-step buttonholes It says it has box-feed, too

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