The Bernina 1008 is a solid, no-frills workhorse. The sewing machine
store tried to upsell me a fancier model of Bernina on the grounds that
those make better buttonholes, but since I was having the Viking
restored I stuck with my choice of the 1008.
No machine is perfect, but I still have a case of accumulitis, thinking
about all the machines I could have bought and thinking another one
wouldn't hurt . . .
Fran
Lavolta Press
Books on historic sewing
www.lavoltapress.com
On 4/2/2013 8:24 PM, annbw...@aol.com wrote:
My new Bernina 1008 makes
cruddy buttonholes,
I'm surprised your Bernina makes cruddy buttonholes. I wonder if they've
changed how it works. One reason I wanted a Bernina was their reputation for
good buttonholes. They were at that time the only machine that did the zigzag
of both sides forward, instead of going down one side and up the other--that is
accomplished by going up the other side with a straight stitch and then coming
down with a zigzag. Mine also has a optical buttonholer so, once I make one,
all the others match exactly. But that feature, of course, was possible with
the buttonhole attachment. My old Kenmore has a buttonhole attachment, but it
isn't the kind with the drop-in cams, so I'm limited to 5 sizes.
Ann Wass
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