The Brother CE 5500PRW sewing machine has won the Consumer's Digest 'Best Buy' award and is one of the least expensive Project Runway machines on the market. If you want to sew like a pro without breaking the bank, this one is certainly worth a look.
This is a compact, lightweight machine with lots of features suitable for making clothes, light quilting and free-motion embroidery. It's smaller and lighter than comparable machines making it highly portable.
Brother CE 5500PRW Stitch Patterns
A total of 50 built-in stitches are programmed into this sewing machine including 5 styles of auto-sizing, 1-step buttonholes. The stitch selection covers decorative sewing, stretch stitches, quilting, and heirloom sewing. Stitch width is adjustable to 7mm and length adjustable to 5mm.
Comparing sewing machines often comes down to settling on a set of stitch patterns that will grow as your skills improve and your taste for more complex projects increases. The collection that comes with this machine has enough variety to accomplish all types of sewing with some very pretty designs.
Brother CE 5500PRW Presser Feet
There are a total of 7 snap-on presser feet included with the purchase of this sewing machine. The Zigzag foot has a leveler button for maneuvering over thick seams. Stored inside the flatbed of this machine you will find a Zigzag (general purpose) foot, a Buttonhole foot, an Overcasting foot, a Monogramming foot, the Zipper foot, a Blind Stitch foot and a Button Fitting presser foot.
Brother CE 5500PRW Features
Brother does a great job of packing as many automation features as possible into their machines - even this entry level Project Runway model.