My favourite sewing machine
My Thoughts on the Brother XM2701 Sewing Machine I’ve always felt that a sewing machine doesn’t need to have hundreds of stitches and complicated settings to be useful. Sometimes, you just want something you can sit down with, switch on, and start sewing without spending half the day trying to figure out what everything does. That’s one of the reasons the Brother XM2701 caught my attention. The XM2701 is a fairly small machine, weighing around 12.6 pounds, so it isn’t something that feels difficult to move around. I actually like this about it because not everyone has a permanent sewing table or a separate sewing room. If you need to take the machine out when you want to sew and put it away afterward, having something lighter makes life a little easier. It comes with 27 built-in stitches, which I think is more than enough for the kind of sewing most of us do at home. There are the usual straight and zigzag stitches, along with stretch, blind hem, and decorative stitches. There’s also a...