JUKIHZL-F300 Sewing and Quilting Machine, White

Me gusto mucho esta máquina , sus puntadas lo fácil que es utilizarla y sobre todo que se ensarta con una palanquita y hace el corte de hilo al terminar con el pie de la máquina😍

I'm writing this from the perspective of an intermediate sewer who just upgraded from a "beginner" machine. If you're an advanced user, this review will probably not be helpful to you.I just upgraded from a Singer HD machine, and I already love the Juki. It was super easy to set up and get running. Might have taken me 10 minutes to unpack it, remove all the tape and such, wind a bobbin, thread it, and run a test stitch. The screen and controls are pretty intuitive and when they're not, the manual is excellent. Juki has also posted several videos on youtube that explain how to use many of the features. Those are very helpful.One of the things I really enjoy about this machine is the control of the speed with the foot pedal. On my old machine, the foot pedal was very sensitive and it was really difficult to get the machine to start out slowly. If you only needed 3-4 stitches, you are better off to just turn the machine manually. The Juki's pedal has a much wider range of motion and it's super easy to make the machine crawl slowly, which is great when you're trying to sneak up on the corner of a breast pocket, or some other tight spot.On top of all that, the machine is smooth as butter. The Singer HD vibrates quite a bit, and bounces horribly at high speed. The Juki is far more stable and smooth. Part of that is probably the weight of the machine. It's a bit beefy at around 25 lbs.The box feed system works great, it feeds material straight through without a whole lot of guidance, which is also a nice improvement.The screen shows you a lot of the important information you need. Stitch width, length, and type. It also shows the "suggested" presser foot for the stitch. It also gives info on what options are selected and other things. The menu setup is also pretty intuitive. I was able to figure out much of it without the manual. 10 of the most common stitches can be accessed with the push of only one button though, which is great.You may be wondering what they left off this unit in order to keep the price down from the HZL-600. The manual can be found online, which has all the differences, but here's my highlights of the things that are NOT included on this machine but are with the more expensive models: - No knee lever for lifting the presser foot. However, you can buy it for about $25.- No walking foot, no free motion foot, no appliqué foot. Not a big deal to me. The open-front appliqué foot might be useful sometimes though.- No circular punch for the keyhole button holes. Without the punch, the keyhole button holes are less useful, but I can buy one for a lot less than the cost of the more expensive model.- Many fewer stitches. The HZL-600 has more than twice as many stitch choices, but the 300 has a decent selection and I don't see this as being a big deal.- No random length stitches. The 600 can randomly vary the length of the "legs" on appliqué stitches and a few others. Might make them look more interesting or more like hand stitching. This model doesn't have any of those.- No light in the throat area. The 600 has a second light over the throat area of the machine. This one only has the light over the stitch area. Not a huge deal to me.I sew mostly garments, so this has most of what I need. I ordered the knee lever because I can see how that would be helpful. Even without it, the machine is great as delivered. Highly recommended!

While I love reviewing products, I'm always a little leery of writing a review within the first few weeks of buying a product; so I'm beginning to always preface with: "Initial review. Once I've worked with it for a while, I may update." That being said, I've been working on clothing for over 50 years; about 47 of those professionally. To that end, I've worked with many different brands of sewing machines. This is not my first Juki. I've always been very pleased with the work on earlier Juki machines. This one appears to be no different at first blush. In fact, the remarkable thing about this machine appears to be that it's designed sort of like an industrial machine, but in a portable body! So far, I love it's versatility. I'll be interested to see how well it functions over time.

wife really likes it.

This sewing machine was ordered from Amazon Australia but when it arrived it was obvious that it had been sent from USA. The machine cannot be used in Australia as this country has 240V electricity whereas this USA appliance uses 120V. Amazon AUstralia should have warned us about the voltage difference or not sold us the machine. Very poor.