JUKIHZL-F300 Sewing and Quilting Machine , White

I have been saving for this machine for a while and I just love it. It’s a heavy duty quality sewing machine that’s easy to use and comes with most stitches you’ll need. Great value for the money as well. It’s portable if you want to take it on retreat and uses most thread that you can find on the market. It has a thread cutter, needle threader, drop in bobbin, needle up or down button and automatic lock stitch. It has a continuous stitch button for your decorative stitches and a mirror image button. It comes with the button hole presser foot, overcasting presser foot, zipper foot, manual button hole presser foot and blind stitch presser foot and the standard presser foot. It has speed control which is great for quilting. It comes with the foot controller but you don’t have to use it because there is a start and stop button on the machine and a reverse button. If you press on the heel side of the foot controller it will cut your thread which is very convenient. If you’re using decorative stitches and create your own pattern, you can save it on file to the machine. Altogether there are 225 stitch patterns and 4 letter patterns and 15 different buttonholes to choose from. In case you can’t tell I’m thrilled with this machine. I have a straight stitch machine that’s very expensive but it’s so nice to have this one with the zig zag stitches to sew knits now also.

After reading all the positive reviews on this model I ordered it. About six hundred bucks with tax. It is delivered in a very sturdy box and packed well. The instruction booklet is VERY easy to understand and printed large (this is worth ten stars). Also the video I watched was clear too. I took my time to set it up. I am an advanced sewer but have put it aside because I had an older Singer that got all tangled up. I am making a quilt out of cashmere sweaters so needed a good machine. Can I say this is like sewing heaven? The digital features display clearly, and at the push of a button you can select all the different stitches. No fiddling around. It amazingly threads the needle!! And it also cuts the threads at the end of a seam by pressing the back of the foot control. I have now pieced the entire front of my quilt and the machine sews like magic, does not ball up, runs very quietly and I am only using half the power (it has a power control from slow to fast). Goes over double seams like butter. I do not often review products, only if they deserve five stars or zero. If there is one little glitch it's the bobbin winder. It went too fast and got the thread tangled before I created some tension on the thread to start, now works very well. I also ordered the extender tray (but it was very hard to find, neither Amazon or any other big outlet had one, had to go to a sewing center). It should arrive tomorrow. I have found the machine for me! Thanks Juti for great engineering.

I did a lot of research. Read the reviews and got super excited about buying a Juki! I’ve been sewing for 50 years and thought I would treat myself to a great machine. Right out of the box I had a minor problem. The self threader did not automatically return to its original spot, but within a little help, it popped back up. I did some simple sewing to test out the machine. I was especially excited about the thread trimming feature. It was great.! Actually everything seemed fine at first. Then a couple weeks later I had my sister over and I was showing her the machine doing a simple, single stitch. The machine made a funny sound, and I stopped immediately after she left. I returned to see what had happened. Since I was just doing a single stitch, I couldn’t imagine what the problem would be. I rethreaded the machine and start again, but now something seemed off, and there was a sound every time the machine was running. It turned out to be something wrong with the bobbin. Again, I went back to doing research rethreaded over and over again, but the bobbin was noisy and it just didn’t make sense. Eventually, I just went back to my old machine because the Juki was so problematic. So my new machine sat on the side too much of a headache to tackle. Finally when I return to sewing, I decided to give the Juki another chance. Now the thread cutter would only cut the bottom thread consistently, and the bobbin was making noise. I decided to take it to be serviced. Their technician in Juki machines and I’m hopeful. Here in Hawaii things are expensive and without looking at my machine my bill is $300. I’m hoping for a good outcome but already I know it’s gonna cost too much for way too little. My experience with this machine has really impacted my joy of sewing. But refusing to give up, I decided to buy a machine for $200 while I waited for this $500 machine to be serviced for $300. I guess sowing can be an expensive hobby.! I love sewing gifts to give away and this is the first time I’ve had such a struggle. My original machine., a Pfaf , works, but has problems with the power cord, so my new machine is not the basic singer which works beautifully! This reminds me just how poorly and finicky the Juki machine is. Not recommended!