Long Arm Sewing Machine

How does your sewing machine or the sewing machine you are looking at compare to other models that have the same features?  You need to look at sewing machine ratings to help you make a decision on buying your new machine or replacing the old one.  Many things to consider in the ratings are that if they are “expert” ratings some of the things that the raters do not like – some professional seamstresses and alteration specialists are rather picky about quirky things, may not mean much to your.  If you want to get unbiased mechanical and durability ratings you need to go to Consumers’ Guide for their sewing machine ratings.  Their you can see which offer the most stitches and upgrades, which have better powered motors, which have better warranties and service and which are recommended as “Best Buys” for different sewing situations like quilting, alterations and repairs.

On How Stuff Works website they have a section called Consumer Guide Products.  You can type in the product you want to compare and it will come up with what is available on the web and the price range for each available product that comes up on websites selling that product.  Unless a product is only sold in one online store you will get a price range not a manufacturer’s suggested retail price.  How Stuff Works also provides “Expert” reviews on almost all of the product that comes up in your search.  When typing in long arm sewing machines it came up with one hundred ninety one results from manufacturers like Brother, Pfaff – Baby Lock, Singer, Bernina, and many more.

They also categorize machines into computerized, non computerized and serger and overlock machines.  This helps you narrow your choices down.  With each selection you can click on an individual machine and see if there are sewing machine ratings for you choice of machine.  On the main search result page you will find featured items and the beginning of the total search results.  On the right you will see a question asking if you are looking for more and it will have a list of at leas five expert sewing machine ratings that you can click on to get the details of the review.

Consumersearch.com is another excellent source for sewing machine ratings and they show the Top 5 rated machines in different categories like basic sewing machine, basic electronic sewing machine, budget computerized sewing machine, high end computerized sewing machine and luxury quilting machine.  The price for the basic machine was about $120 and the luxury quilting machine was over $3000.