Hand-held Sewing Machines

[lusentoj]

Hi, I don't really know where else to post this question haha. I just found out that electric hand-held sewing machines exist; seems like there's a ton of different brands that are all just clones of each other:

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Has anyone here used them? I've tried reading about them but it's hard to find anyone who's actually tried to "sew" with them, everyone's just "testing them out" and then going back to their real machines. I won't have a real machine.

I've been living in a house where our only sewing machine is one of those 100-year-old electricless ones that only has 1 stitch and only forward-stitch, so the "lack of features" doesn't really bother me (although backstitch would be really nice). I was planning on using it for all kinds of general sewing just like a normal machine. I even tried searching on kickstarter to see if anyone's improving these things and can't find anything...

Comments

Re: It probably depends....

[gatheringrivers]

I've got one of the electric styles like you linked.

I wasn't terribly impressed when I did try it out, so it's still stuffed in a box somewhere after we moved. Might be just me - at the time I wasn't too knowledgeable on using the little hand-held styles.

(And considering I originally thought you were talking about an antique hand machine, uhhhhhhh, yea, these are a lot newer than I've really got any experience with now.)

Re: It probably depends....

[lusentoj]

Haha, my "real" machine at home is an antique but it's not by choice ;_;;

I have nothing against antiques but I usually vote convenience over age!