Shark by Euro-Pro Sewing Machine Remanufactured 998A

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I'm glad I got this as a starter sewing machine, and for something so cheap it seems to be a decent machine. It's not some sort of miracle where you're getting a $300 machine for 15 bucks, but it will do basic sewing with nice strong stitches. But I encountered some obstacles that any other novices out there should probably know about. I had read that the accompanying instructions are terrible (and they are), so one thing I liked was that the machine was supposed to come pre-threaded. I figured I could see how it was threaded and then reverse-engineer how to do it myself. But it was terribly packaged -someone had stuck the original box into a much larger box with no packing foam or paper or anything to stabilize it, and the smaller box had come open, spilling pieces all over the place and wrecking the threading. The bobbin was off, the thread was broken and tangled, and if there was ever even a needle inserted into the machine, I couldn't find it. Fortunately there's an extra needle packaged with the accessories. It took me a long time with the idiotic instructions and Google to figure out how to set it all up properly, get it threaded, get the thread to stop tangling up under the pressure foot, and I've got it sewing but am still not 100% confident that I've managed to figure out every little bit of stuff like "Does this piece of thread go over or under this bit here?" If it had been better packaged and arrived in a shape that allowed me to figure out exactly how it should be set up, I would have been totally happy that I'd gotten what I paid for. This also would probably not be an issue for someone who knows their way around a sewing machine better than I do. But I'm now glad I didn't send it back, and I appear to have a tiny little basic sewing machine. It's so light that you can move it around easily, good for apartments where you're moving your projects on and off your table, and it makes perfectly nice stitches for very basic purposes. I wouldn't try something complicated with this, but it'll hem pants and make basic garments, and for things like that it's better and faster than hand sewing.

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