Brother SE350 Computerized Embroidery-and-Sewing Machine

by Brother

Product Features

• Sewing-and-embroidery machine with LCD touch screen for easy stitch selection and editing
• 67 built-in stitches, 98 stitch functions, and 10 styles of 1-step automatic buttonholes
• 70 built-in embroidery designs, 5 monogramming fonts, and 120 frame pattern combinations
• Automatic needle threader; 15 needle positions; maximum embroidery field of 4 by 4 inches
• Measures approximately 18 by 8 by 12 inches; 25-year limited warranty

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 15 x 15.2 inches ; 15.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 24 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B001AQER4I
• Item model number: SE350
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,377 in Arts, Crafts & Sewing (See Top 100 in Arts, Crafts & Sewing)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Ideal for both sewing and embroidery, this easy-to-use machine provides an array of convenient features. As a computerized sewing machine, it comes with a wide array of built-in stitches, as well as a large, backlit, LCD touch screen for easy stitch selection and editing, making it possible for both novice sewers and professional designers to create fashionable projects tailored toward their unique preferences. Choose from 67 built-in stitches, 98 stitch functions, and 10 styles of one-step automatic buttonholes. As an embroidery machine, the unit offers 70 built-in embroidery designs, five monogramming fonts, and 120 frame pattern combinations. Other highlights include an automatic needle threader, an automatic push-button thread cutter, 15 needle positions, a maximum sewing speed of 710 stitches per minute, and a free arm, as well as a snap-on presser-foot attachment, a drop-feed function, auto presser-foot pressure, and a maximum embroidery field of 4 by 4 inches. A vast array of useful accessories are also included: seven feet (buttonhole, overcastting, monogramming, zipper, zigzag, blind hem, and button fitting), a seam ripper, four bobbins including clips, a needle set, a twin needle, a cleaning brush, an eyelet punch, a screwdriver, a touch pen, three spool caps, a spool pin, a spool net, and a foot controller, as well as scissors, a disc-shaped screwdriver, an embroidery hoop, an accessory case, a hard cover, and a user manual. The computerized sewing-and-embroidery machine measures approximately 18 by 8 by 12 inches and carries a 25-year limited warranty.

Product Description

The SE350 computerized sewing and embroidery machine offers easy sewing and embellishment. You can embellish almost any item with over 70 built in embroidery designs or access over 1,000 additional designs from Brother's optional embroidery design cards. The SE350 has 5 bult in alphabet fonts as well. You can save up to 12 embroidery desings in the built in memory. The SE350 uses a 4" x 4" hoop size and has buit in embroidery rotation in 90 and 10 degree increments. Using the large LCD touch screen you can access embroidery designs as well as on-screen editing functions. The backlit LCD touch screen is easy to view with on-screen reference guide in 16 built in languages. This machine is also full of sewing features to construct garments, home dec projects, quilting or just basic sewing and mending. The SE350 has 10 styles of one-step automatic buttonholes, 67 built in stitches with 98 stitch functions, and a built in needle threader to save wear and tear on your eyes and fingers. The built in automatic push-button thread cutter makes garment sewing and embroidery fun and effortless. Brother's Quick-Set bobbin makes changing bobbins easy as you simply drop-in a full bobbin, pull the thread through the slot and begin. The included instructional CD gives easy to follow instructions on the features of the SE350. The written instruction manual is bilingual in english and spanish.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

150 of 152 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Embroidery/Sewing Machine for the money!, December 19, 2008

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Sandra L. Pierson "Sandy2nm" (Hagerman, NM) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brother SE350 Computerized Embroidery-and-Sewing Machine (Kitchen)

I bought my Brother in April 2008 and have been sewing on it daily for at least 3 hours every day since then. I've never had ANY trouble with it. It's a MUST that you also buy the PED Basic to go with your machine so that you can download designs from the internet. I've downloaded over 8,000 free designs so far, and that's just a "drop in the bucket". You're limited to 4 x 4 designs (that's the only drawback). The machine is very light weight and has accompanied me on many trips. You don't have to have special needles or special bobbins for this machine. It's VERY user friendly! The patterns that come with the machine are very high quality, as are the Alphabets. I'd like to have more fonts on the machine, but they are so easily accessible on the internet that this really isn't an issue. I will say that 40 weight rayon thread seems to work best (and use a bobbin thread when embroidering). When I finally wear this machine out, I'll probably go with another Brother machine.

116 of 123 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Small but fun, February 2, 2009

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Shel T S Rule (Maine) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brother SE350 Computerized Embroidery-and-Sewing Machine (Kitchen)

I've been sewing for years, and have made anything from ball gowns to simple Halloween costumes. I have a Brother Serger, and a New Home Sewing Machine, plus a Singer Commercial machine that I put a lot of cloth through in a year. I have wanted to venture into machine embroidery for some time now and saw this little machine at my local Wally World, it looked like fun so I bought it and here is what I have found so far;
Cons: Very small throat-makes it very difficult to change feet, and thread by hand. Just is not enough room under there. Some of my projects that have yards and yards of material I know I will have difficulty doing on this machine.
Embroidery hoop broke after just a few uses. Brother will replace if I ship it to them at my cost. They will then send a bag of bobbins back to me with my replacement hoop to easing the shipping pain.
Wish the bobbin cover did not remove completely as it is tiny and easy to misplace or gets hidden under your project.
Why bother including the little white pouch for accessories? It was ripped/split out of the box. Just give me a zip lock baggy to start with if you can not include a decent box for the seam ripper, hole punch, brush...its what all this stuff gets stored in after the machine is unpacked anyway.
Probably a bit picky but I felt the machine was a bit loud in comparison to my other machines.
Pros: Easy to use. The embroidery section walks you through and prompts for thread color change. Very neat to watch a pattern get colored in.
Nice selection of loaded designs as an intro.
Love the touch screen feature.
The cut thread feature is also handy and will be a huge plus when doing a large project.
The needle up or down, the lighted go stop button, needle threader and so on are super features that are very easy to get fond of.
So in conclusion I like this machine, its cute, fun and easy to use. The size limitations and embroidery hoop breaking keep me from giving this a five star rating.

119 of 128 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great sewing.Not worthy for monogramming at all, April 18, 2009

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monogramminglover - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brother SE350 Computerized Embroidery-and-Sewing Machine (Kitchen)

The Brother Sewing machine SE-350 is great for that..... SEWING. Even if all you want to do is small monogramming and little bit of embroidery, you will quickly grow out of it. Here is why. I bought this because of the price and ALL the great things it had to offer. The sewing part is great, lots of stitches, easy to thread, but if you will not be using the embroidery part, you can get as many different types of stitches without the embroidery attachment for less than half the price of the brother SE-350. The Brother SE-350 cost me $379.99 plus tax at Walmart.


Now, if you do want to do a big of embroidery of monogramming, the folks at brother tell you the machine comes with a big 4x4 inch embroidery hoop, which for me was plenty. BUT you can ONLY MONOGRAM LETTERS that are about 1 inch big with the included 4x4 hoop. Should you want bigger letters, you need to buy the large hoop and even then, the letters only get as big as 1 5/8 inch. Should you desire to adjust the sizes, well, you need a digitizer, which the cheapest I have found is the Dakota, and it costs about $100. On top of that you will need the card reader, because Brother needs to make extra money and they could not use any of the dozens of cards that already exist on the market. The card reader is just over $100. THEN, you need to buy the card so you can transfer and adjust your designs....that is another $30 dlls.

In summary, I will be taking this back to the store today and I am afraid I would never buy brother again. If the box of the brother SE-350 had told me that I could only monogram letters less or about 1 inch big, that machine wouldn't have been taken out of the box. I agree with others too, the bobbin cover is very easily misplaced.