The combo sewing & embroidery machine is a great tool to add new designs to your new project, decorate curtains, and pillow covers, and personalize your Shirts, Pants, Denim Jacket Handkerchief with your name or initials (& your partners), and a lot of other things.
A combined sewing machine can be used for regular sewing tasks as well as for embroidery purposes too.
While there are quite a lot of combo sewing machine options available in the market, not all of them are good. Specially those low-price combined sewing machines!
I’ve tried many sewing machines before such as Brother SE625, SINGER Futura XL-400, SINGER XL-580 Futura, Brother PE770 & Brother SE1800 & have reviewed them on this website.
So if you are wondering which is the best combo sewing & embroidery machine currently available in the market, what are the latest features that combo machines come with, this post will answer all these questions.
Read on!
Combo Sewing & Embroidery Machine Advantages
There are plenty of best sewing machines, Embroidery Machines, Comupterzied sewing machine, Heavy duty sewing machines, and Quilting Machines but having a combined Sewing and Embroidery Machine can ease a lot of tasks for you. You don’t need a separate space to store two sewing machines.
Not just that, the maintenance of two sewing machines could be hectic sometimes as well. In that case, a combined sewing & embroidery machine can give you great relief.
You don’t need to switch between two separate sewing & embroidery machines while working on your project.
Using the same machine for sewing as well as for embroidery can be very convenient. It can help you finish your project quickly and easily.
So if you are looking for one such combo sewing and embroidery machine, go through this post completely to understand whether Brother SE1900 is a good choice for you or not.
Brother SE1900 Review
Brother is one of the most trusted brands for Sewing machines and itself gives us confidence about the sewing machine.
Though it doesn’t guarantee anything and we must check all the aspects before buying.
The features, specification, ease of use, accessories, maintenance & price are some of the important things that you should keep in mind while purchasing a sewing machine.
Talking about this particular model, this combined sewing machine is a real gem with plenty of interesting features and fair pricing for such an advanced and feature-rich combined sewing & embroidery machine!
I have upgraded to Brother SE1900 from Brother SE600, and feel quite happy.
Brother SE1900 Features
If you are buying Brother SE1900, you don’t need to think about any particular feature an ideal combined sewing and embroidery machine should have.
Beginners who don’t have any idea what all features their combo machine should have can straight away go and grab this versatile combined sewing machine.
The Important features of Brother SE1900 at Glance
This is a feature-rich and highly advanced combined sewing machine with plenty of interesting features. Let’s take a look at some of the most important features.
- Type: Its a Combined Computerized Sewing and Embroidery Machine
- Stitches: 240 Built-in Stitches.
- Buttonholes: 10 styles of 1-step automatic buttonholes.
- Designs: 138 built-in designs
- Fonts: 11 monogramming fonts.
- Embroidery Area: Large 5″ x 7″ embroidery area.
- Display: 3.2-inches Color LCD touchscreen Display.
- Needle Threader: Advanced Automatic Needle threader.
- Bobbin: Quick set-up top drop-in bobbin.
- Edit Designs: Edit & Preview your design on a large screen before stitching.
- Embroidery Designs: My Custom Stitch feature allows you to Customize your embroidery design.
- USB: Import design in machine memory through USB Stick.
- Built-in color pelettes.
- Automatic stitch reinforcement option.
- Free-motion sewing.
- Lighting: LED lights to brightly illuminate the work area.
- Warranty: 25 years warranty.
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Machine Type-
It is a combined sewing machine and could be used for multiple purposes. Brother SE1900 combo can be used for Fashion sewing, Quilting, and Embroidery. So buying this sewing machine can serve different purposes.
Apart from that, Brother SE1900 is a highly advanced computerized sewing machine that eases a lot of tasks such as downloading your favorite embroidery designs from the internet and transferring them to your machine’s memory through a USB port.
240 Built-In Stitches-
Brother SE1900 combined machine comes with a huge number of built-in stitches to decorate your masterpiece with different stitch designs.
With 240 built-in stitches, you’ve plenty of amazing stitch designs to choose from to give your project an eye-catching look.
There is hardly any other sewing machine that comes with this many built-in designs. So you have different choices for different projects. Just figure out which stitch pattern looks good for a particular project and start decorating your items.
Buttonholes-
This combined sewing and embroidery machine comes with 10 styles of 1-step automatic buttonholes. The machine does the job itself and makes perfect buttonholes of an appropriate size automatically.
Built-in Embroidery Designs-
Brother SE1900 machine comes with 138 built-in embroidery designs.
It means, you can start with your first ever project and decorate it with these 138 ready-to-go embroidery designs. But, since we are talking about Brother SE1900, there is no embroidery design limit.
There are 11 monogramming fonts included in 138 designs to personalize your project with your name or initials or with the name of your partner quickly and easily.
It includes 7 English fonts, 3 Japanese fonts, and 1 Cyrillic font. You can choose different fonts as well to make your project stand out.
Import Embroidery designs-
Like I said above, with Brother SE1900, there is no limit to embroidery designs. You just look for any design on the internet, download it on your PC and transfer it to the machine’s memory through a USB stick.
Yes, Brother SE1900 comes with a USB port that can be used for transferring embroidery design files from your computer to the machine. With this feature, you can literally have unlimited embroidery designs to choose from.
3.2″ Color LCD Touchscreen
This machine comes with a large 3.2-inches LCD touchscreen that displays a lot of information for easy operation of the sewing machine. It shows what pattern you have currently chosen and other details.
The screen gives you full control over the sewing machine right from choosing fonts, designs, stitch selection, editing design, etc.
Edit Design-
One of the best features that I like the most about this sewing machine is Design editing. You can literally play around with different designs, frames, letters, and patterns to create your own design.
The touchscreen allows you to do it pretty quickly and easily.
You can also adjust design size, make a mirror image, change thread color using a built-in color palette, rotate the designs, and do everything you can think of to edit the design according to your choice.
Preview Design before stitching-
It is totally a computer! I love these technical features, they just make my life super easy.
When you complete editing the design, you can preview it before stitching. It gives you exactly the same look that you are going to get after the project is finished.
LED Lighting-
Using a sewing machine requires proper lighting and if you are a person with weak eye vision, it becomes of utmost importance because of safety reasons. Brother SE1900 comes with LED lights to brightly illuminate the work area.
So, if you’ve set your sewing table in a place where the lighting conditions aren’t as good, don’t worry, Brother SE1900 has taken care of it.
Large Embroidery Work area –
Brother SE1900 comes with a large 5″x7″ embroidery area to complete your project easily and comfortably. So, if you are decorating the curtains, quilts, or any other large projects, this sewing machine offers you ample space to handle it.
Advanced Automatic Needle Threader –
This combined sewing machine comes with an advanced automatic needle threader that passes the thread through the eye of the needle quickly and easily with just a push of a lever. This feature is quite effective and makes your life easy.
Free Motion Stitching-
The free motion stitching allows you to stitch your items as you want. Whether you want to make straight stitches or curved ones, you can do it freely as you want.
Warranty-
This combo machine is covered with 25 years of warranty, so you don’t have to worry about anything for such a long time.
Brother SE1900 PROS
- More built-in stitches.
- More built-in designs.
- Large LCD touchscreen.
- Edit Design, and preview it before stitching.
- USB Port to import the design of your choice.
- Large embroidery hoop.
Brother SE1900 CONS
- Some people make find it a little expensive.
What’s included in the Box
The box has all the necessary accessories you need to get started. Here is what you are going to get inside the box.
- Machine
- Tools & Supplies
- Detachable Table.
- Hoop.
- 8 presser feet.
Conclusion
IF you are looking for a reliable, versatile, long-lasting & feature-rich combined sewing machine, I’d highly suggest you go with Brother SE1900.
It is a successor of the Brother SE1800 combined sewing machine with extra features. So instead of spending money to buy an old model, get this new one.
The design editing & preview feature is quite impressive that can save you a lot of time. The super responsive LCD color touchscreen display makes editing your design a breeze.
Some people may find it expensive but a good product comes with a price tag. For me, it’s a very good option for those who are looking for a combo sewing and embroidery machine.
