Product Features
|
Product Details
Would you like to give feedback on images?
|
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
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!,
By
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,
By 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,
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.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
|