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What embroidery machine should a beginner buy?

I like to buy an embroidery machine to learn embroidery and someday have a small home business. I'm thorn between buying a machine on ebay where is so much cheaper than my local store. I for sure will be doing letters and numbers, is the PE770 with a hoop 5x7 good enough? Thank you very much.

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1. Work with it before you buy it. And, I strongly recommend something that only has a few adaptable embroidery stitches on it and look toward the quality of the machine. You do get what you pay for, but fancy schmancy with a 100,000 stitch choices (which increases the price) is not what it is cracked up to be for a beginner. Go to a sewing store or a sewing machine store to test run a few models. Best of luck!
2. Most all designs will fit in a 5x7 ez. I would definitely recommend to buy one locally,that way you can take it back to them when some part of it does not work.(always a possibility of something not working with the brothers ) get some pre wound embroidery bobbins, they really work better.
3. I like to buy an embroidery machine to learn embroidery and someday have a small home business. I'm thorn between buying a machine on e bay where is so much cheaper than my local store.
4. I'd recommend buying locally. When I purchased my first embroidery machine, I purchased from the local dealer. Cost was a factor, and the dealer offered me a used Babylock Esante and a used serger in a combination deal. I wasn't sure how much I'd be using the embroidery unit. Well, turned out I loved it. Within six months, I upgraded to a new Ellageo. The dealer gave me all my $$ back on the new purchase. At a later date, my dealer took the used serger in on trade on an Eclipse DX (jet threading on the lower loopers). I attended classes for the Ellageo that went on for over a year. . .learning a new technique at each class (can't remember if they were monthly or every six weeks). I've formed friendships with the staff and over the years have called in for help when I've had a problem I couldn't solve by reading the manual. I might add that Babylock machines are superior machines and very user friendly, in my opinion. I was just in the dealership this week, as I'm considering purchasing a coverstitch machine. My dealer spent over an hour with me demonstrating and giving me the pros and cons of several coverstitch machines and whether to upgrade to the Evolution, or a stand alone coverstitch machine. Judy