[wendy]

Update for anyone interested: I’ll be picking up my Pfaff Select 4.0 later this week! Call me fickle. I’ve found a display model at half price at a dealer that I really like and am pretty sure I’ve made the right decision. This will be like my current machine but better, which is all I really need right now. Dual feed! Yay! Some day in the future I might discover all of the joys of a computerized machine but for now I’ll continue to crank ’em out old school. I’m waiting on pins and needles (sorry). I’ve even tidied up my sewing room!

🙂 🙂

[Nicole]

Bumped!

[with love Heidi]

Wendy, just wondering how your new machine us going 5 months later?

[wendy]

I think I did the best I could with the budget I had at the time. It’s a decent machine that can handle what I need it to do, and will serve me well until I can save for a truly excellent one. And I actually have no urge to move toward a computerized machine. I still have my sights set on that Bernina but might look at some Husqvarna models when the time comes. I want a solid tank of a machine, no frills.

The things I don’t like so much about it are the following:

-no adjustable pressure foot

-front loading bobbing (although I can live with it)

-I’m not totally sold on the duel feed. I don’t find it to be so great on lighter weight fabrics, although it handles thicker layers very well.

-a few minor irritating things, like having to swing open the ‘handy’ accessory tray to get to the bobbin, and some cheap plastic parts.

[with love Heidi]

Thanks Wendy, I’ve been researching various machines, and remembered you had the pfaff, since mine came back from it’s service repair with “worn parts” and “will now be more noisy”. I’m thinking if I can keep it going long enough I might also be looking at that Bernina!

[wendy]

Oh no! Hopefully it’ll still work for you for now. And hopefully there’s a nice new machine in your near future!

I got cut short last night by child-waking-with-night-terror. I meant to add that it’s straight stitch isn’t very nice (every 4th stitch or so is slightly slanted). The dealer told me that a lot of the machines are like that these days. What’s with that??

The Pfaff really isn’t bad, there are just better out there. I’m sure I’ll be fine with it for years to come. 🙂

[with love Heidi]

Every 4 stitch is slightly slanted?!? and this is a common problem!?! Maybe it should be fixed! And I hope that mention it before you buy, but yer right. (sorry having a rant).

That’s well worth noting as I mainly use the straight stitch and sometimes the zigzag (and would like to learn to do a blind hem, I can do this on my current one). A sewing machine that doesn’t do a good straight stitch is a bit odd, all the bells and whistles are nice but really!

Hope your little ones feeling better today.

[wendy]

A straight straight does seem kind of essential, doesn’t it? 🙂 Apparently that’s just how this machine sews, and many others I was told. Particularly the newer, computerized models. I don’t know this first hand, of course. That’s just what I was told by my dealer. It’s a hard one to swallow. I’ve gotten used to it but it irks me every once in a while, and would more so if I hadn’t payed half price for a floor model. I’m not sure if I could’ve done better with the $400 or so that I’d spent and the short time that I had to make a decision but I’m kind of done thinking about it. Next machine, however, I’m saving my pennies for as long as I need to to get exactly what I want!

[with love Heidi]

Given all the above, especially only $400 and limited decision making time it was a very good deal. I might save longer.