New sewing maching purchase for daughter - advice appreciated!

gary · 2005-04-12T20:33:36+00:00

Hello all,My daughter (13yo) has been saving up for a sewing machine and we are going to match it for her birthday in 2 weeks. Her budget is then about $600US. She is very talented and has been sewing on an older (dilapidated)machine for years. She takes sewing lessons and is becoming quite advanced. I am a guy - sorry I don't know all the terms and stitches she talks about. She want to get her degree in design when she is off to school so she takes her sewing seriously and I want to encourage her in this endeavor.What should we look at for brands and models in this price range? We may go higher$ as she is prepared to hold off on her purchase until there are sales - sales which she says happen every so often and the savings are quite significant.Any advice on a sewing machine purchase would be greatly appreciated because her father - me - doesn't know much (I have learned the difference between a surger and a sewing machine though), and her mother is not domesticated in that area.TIAGary :-)