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Bernina 2500DCET Serger Review – Top and Bottom Cover Stitch

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The top and bottom cover stitch serger for professional results at home

When it comes to serging, the Bernina 2500DCET Serger Sewing Machine has you covered — beautifully. This remarkably versatile serger gives you 21 different stitch variations, including 13 overlock stitches, six cover stitches and a chain stitch. Not only can you obtain the same fine edge finish you’ll find on sleeves and ready-to-wear garments, but sewing widths ranging from 2.5mm to 5mm, making it easy to get professional results on everything from batiste to polar fleece. Plus, adding decorative flourishes to your seams or handling flat seams is simple, too. This serger offers preset tensions, lay-in threading and a lower looper threader to keep things easy. Bernina’s powerful DC motor ensures smooth sewing and perfect stitches, no matter what the project. Yet for all of its performance and speed, the machine is incredibly quiet. That’s Bernina quality.

Product Features: Bernina 2500DCET Serger Review

User Friendly

  • Automatic Tension Settings
  • Direct Stitch Selection
  • Self-threading Lower Looper
  • Exclusive Swing Out Presser Foot
  • Easy Rolled Hems

Perfect Stitching

  • Largest Stitch Selection
  • Variable Top and Bottom
  • Cover Stitch
  • Variable Overlock Stitch Widths
  • 5mm Cover Stitch
  • Versatile Chain Stitch

Versatility

  • Easy Stitch Conversion
  • Adjustable Differential Feed
  • Slender Free Arm

Helpful Tools

  • Standard Presser Foot with Tape Guide
  • Compensating Foot
  • Seam Guide
  • Deco Guide
  • Additional Accessories

Virtuosa 155 Bernina Sewing Machine Reviews

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What do you feel like sewing today? A quilt? A dress? A doll? A pillow? With the Virtuosa 155 Bernina Sewing Machine, it’s your choice. Simply place the appropriate stitch card on the front of the machine for the project you’re in the mood to create. It’s so easy, it takes just seconds. Four cards let you access a wide variety of stitches for fashion, home dec, quilting or crafts. There are 92 built-in stitches to choose from, but that’s just the beginning. You can also customize a fifth stitch card with your favorite stitches using the Bernina exclusive Customized Pattern Selection (CPS) software, giving you the choice of 272 total stitches!

Product Features: Virtuosa 155 Bernina

Customizable Stitches

  • Four Stitch Packages
  • CPS Software
  • Easy to Use for Perfect Sewing
  • Direct Push Button
  • CB Hook
  • Free Hand System (FHS)

Versatility

  • Four Buttonhole Styles
  • Three Alphabets
  • 30 Space Memory
  • DC Motor

Helpful Tools

  • 8 Presser Feet
  • Compact Fluorescent Light
  • Extension Sewing Table
  • Accessory Box

Felt Toy Sewing Accessories

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Facts about Felt
Toy felt is colourful, there are a multitude of colour available, it is light, easily worked and sewn and it will also glue.

Felt is also washable, hygienically clean and most economical to use.

The patterns on this site suggest colours you can use to make your animal creations – however feel free to experiment!! Purple elephants and Orange frogs with multi-coloured arms and legs are great!

Glass Eyes and buttons for toys
There are a myriad of glass eyes available. Keep to natural animal eye colour and your toys will be more realistic. Swap glass eyes for buttons for a cute factor.

Easy Sewing Projects Beginners Can Do!

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Simple Beginner Sewing Projects
A lot of people will start something but when the project gets hard they get frustrated and stop, even if they really want to do the project. I have seen many people give up on sewing. So here’s my cure. Start with baby steps! You don’t have to do complicated stuff to have amazing unique clothing and super good looking accessories for your house. Many projects on YouTube are super easy sewing projects beginners will love!

There are thousands of super easy sewing projects beginners can do that are fast and simple and will give you confidence to keep going. Remember Rome was not built in a day! As you do them you will be learning too, so you will gain more skill for the next project.

So here are a few videos showing some simple sewing projects, and remember you can just go to YouTube.com to see many more videos of easy sewing projects beginners can do. You can even search for one hour sewing projects. If you want instant results these will be perfect for you. You can always work up to the more advanced techniques, and there are videos for those too! Whatever you want to sew, whether it be clothes, or stuff for your house, or stuff for outside, there are videos that show you how to make it! So now you can learn to sew from the comfort of your own house! How cool is that? Happy Sewing!

Brother LS2125i sewing machine

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Brother LS2125i sewing machine was designed with beginners in mind and is geared toward people looking to mend their shirts or hem their pants. It can handle simple projects and nothing more. Although, for the price, that’s to be expected. If you’re looking for a top of the line machine, you are going to have to pay for it. This is not it.

I tested this out at home with some simple projects I had for my kids. I wanted to mend my son’s basketball shorts and add a few buttons to my daughter’s top… here is what I found:

PROS of Brother LS2125i
This machine is as user-friendly as it is durable and it is a perfect beginner’s machine because of its simplicity of design. It can sew pretty much any materiall; silk, cotton, burlap, you name it. That’s always a bonus. It supports twin needle stitching function and had a left aligned straight stitch for top stitching

This is a great sewing machine for teaching a beginner or for your own first machine.

Here’s why:

  • Simple to thread
  • Very simple to insert bobbin
  • Easy fill the bobbin.

If you are starting out with sewing, please take this advice. If you purchase a low cost machine you are going to have to pamper it a bit. You aren’t going to be able to give it a beating and expect it to continue to work well. The important thing is that you take care of this machine if you want it to last.

Oil your sewing machine once every few months. Change the needle depending on the material you are using. Buy a carrying case so that it will stay protected. This machine will hold up well if cared for properly.

CONS of Brother LS2125i:

The tension can be problem and the thread will lock on top or under the fabric. If you are a beginner this can be frustrating and difficult to fix.

Conclusion

So while it is inexpensive and user-friendly in the sense that it is relatively easy to get up and running it can be a pain to keep running. It’s durable but if you can’t get it to do what you want, you won’t be using it very often anyway.

It’s probably the BEST choice for a beginner but if you are an expert you would certainly want something with more features and options.