NEX Sewing Machine Children Present Portable Crafting Mending Machine with 12 Built-In Stitched

For what this machine is and what its worth, I thought it was a great deal. I had to go out of town for a week and didnt want to stop some of my projects for my etsy business, nor did I want to take my very expensive machine on a flight with the fear of the bag may be checked in and thrown around in the baggage area. Pros: light weight, can use any thread, although I do recommend finding skinnier spools of thread so that it can fit on the thread holder. I used the first four stitches, they worked wonderful. Machine has an auto option (button next to the ruler) I found that to be very useful. Bobbin works great, although I was kinda freaking out at first when winding a bobbin, the presser foot cannot be shut off while winding a bobbin, it goes with it.... which is expected from this very inexpensive machine. LED light was great. Reverse was great. I was sewing four layers of non pill fleece here and there - thick layers were easy to sew. Small presser foot is awesome to get in the small details of finishing your projects. CONS: not very universal needle friendly, I reccomend buying needles and using needles close to what the machine comes with. The foot pedal is really small and kinda hard to press. This machine has be in a certain position when ready to sew, or you will have to keep re threading, due to moving the machine and lose of thread in the process.. if that makes sense. This machine is indefinably a lot slower than my brother machine. great beginner machine, great for travel and if you have a kid who is interested in learning how to sew, this machine is perfect!

I bought this for my 7 year old granddaughter for Christmas. This is the perfect starter sewing machine. It is small in size and has several different stitches to choose from. It works great. She is so excited to start sewing projects. 11/14/17 After using the sewing machine only a couple of times the foot pedal no longer worked. She could still use the machine with the lever but that didn’t work very well to stop quickly. While using the needle stopped picking up the thread, couldn’t stop quickly enough & thread got all bunched up in bobbin. Couldn’t get it to work after that. I contacted the seller & they sent out a new one right away! This seller is very easy to work with.

This was purchased as a Christmas gift for my daughter. Due to holiday travel and busy school schedules, we were not able to open it and start to use it until late January. The first time we used it, it worked reasonably well. Not great, but OK for a child's model. We just tried using it again to make a Valentine's day bag for her class party, and the machine was a disaster. The thread constantly got tangled in various parts of the machine, the needles kept hitting the presser foot and bent/broke rapidly, and the reverse stitch didn't work properly. I have owned sewing machines for years and am experienced, so I know everything was assembled, cared for, and installed properly. I supervised my daughter (who is 8) very closely. Now the return window has closed and I am stuck with a lemon and forced to purchase soemthing else. Huge fail.

This little sewing machine is great for beginners. My 7 year old daughter is learning and it's perfect for her. I have a big fancy digital that is simply too overwhelming to teach with. So far we have not had any issues with the one; However, I did not give 5 stars for these reasons: 1. The instruction pamphlet leaves a lot to be desired. If you didn't already have basic knowledge on how to sew I doubt you would find much help from the pamphlet, specifically with threading the upper thread. 2. Most of the machine is plastic. I would have liked to have seen at least some metal for the thread holder and bobbin winder. 3. The way it is made you have to actually put the thread through holes when threading the machine rather than being able to easily slide it behind or through. Hard to explain but for example: once done running the main thread through the machine most machines have a small catch right above the needle, this machine has an actual hole that it has to go through and it can be difficult if you don't have child size hands. 4. Rather than having speed settings for the foot petal is has 3 settings: foot petal, then low and high in which the machine sews without pressing the petal. I really hate this feature. It's dangerous. 5. Lastly, the knob to change stitches is very difficult to turn. My daughter is not able to do it, so I have to do it for her. What I do absolutely love about this machine is the battery compartment for on the go sewing. Very neat feature. Overall, for a beginner, this is a solid machine. It's great for teaching/learning on and for the price it can't be beat. I'm a bit concerned about replacement needles. They seem to be a different size, not universal. It comes with extras but they will only work on cotton. I wouldn't use them on delicate fabrics or bulkier such as blue jean. I will test the machine with some of my other needles and update my review with the findings.

There was some trouble shooting that I had to work thru. I kept putting in the bobbin backwards, as all my other machines I have had go in the opposite direction! I also flipped over the plastic piece that thread sits on, on the spindle. Because the tread kept breaking, as it has a piece of styrofoam on it that did not allow some of the spools to spin freely. Once I got these bugs worked out, IT WORKS LIKE A CHARM. I have had the machine for about 3 YEARS NOW. I love it, it works great for simple sewing projects! I work at home for an insurance company as an internal helpline. Sometimes I have 15-20 min between calls. During this time I sew with this machine. When I get a call, I just lift it out of the way with one hand. I recently had to take it a part to clean it, I lost the plastic cover that goes over the bobbin and the 2 screws. I cut a cover to fit, out of an old credit card, works great! It still sews with out the 2 screws, but wish I could get replacements! I love this little machine it is so convenient. I have sewn about 100 projects with this machine! A lot of baby blankets and burp clothes!

Before I get into the review, I'll give a little background so anyone reading this knows where I stand when it comes to sewing. I'm 18 years old & have been handsewing little projects for as long as I can remember. I took a full year sewing class at school in the 9th grade and that class was my first & last experience with a sewing machine, until I purchased this one. Mind you, it's been a good 3 years since I've touched a sewing machine, but this machine seems pretty simple to follow & understand. I've had it for about an hour & have managed to get a good grasp on how to use this machine. I'm not one to really follow instruction booklets or anything so I went purely off of my past knowledge. So far, I really like this machine. I spent a good 2 weeks looking at different sewing machines on amazon & reading through reviews & I found this was my best option for the price. Since I'm not really an experienced sewer I didn't want to spend $100+ on a machine that I wasn't going to really know how to use. I wanted something small, light, & easy to use. I found this was the perfect fit for me, & I do not regret this purchase at all! One thing that was annoying was the bobbin that was already in the machine was threaded weirdly so it would keep catching on itself while I was practicing stitches, but I just took it out, unraveled it, & rewrapped the thread and now it's working fine. It does catch every once in a while, but I'm pretty sure it's because I'm still trying to get everything down. I've included some pictures to show what kind of thread patterns this does, because I know at least for me I couldn't get a clear understanding just by the little pictures on the buttons. I definitely need some more practice with this machine, but I still love it (: Update: I've had this sewing machine for about a month now, maybe a little over now. It was working very very well, up until now.. it stopped working properly in the middle of a project I am curretly trying to complete. The thread keeps getting snagged inside the bobbin compartment & no matter how many times I rethread & reset the bobbin I can't go 2 seconds in without it getting snagged again. It's very annoying as I even unscrewed the bobbin compartment & nothing seemed wrong with it. I'm very disappointed with this as now I won't be able to finish the project I was working on. I knocked the rating down 2 stars because of this, as before it was fine but now I'm not able to use this machine. I would put it at 2.5 stars if I could. If anyone know how to fix this please let me know.

I have a Kenmore machine with all the bells and whistles, but there is only one place in the house it will fit and it is not easy to get to for simple repairs or sewing a hem. so I hardly ever used it and my mending pile was getting big. Anyway, this little machine sits on a shelf in my bedroom. It is super light weight so I can just pull it off the shelf put it on my bed or the coffee table and sit there to sew and it is no hassle to chuck it right back on the shelf. It doesn't do all kinds of complex stitches just straight, zigzag and I think it does button holes (but I never tried it.) The point is it is reliable, simple, and basic, but it is for this very reason that I love it. My mending pile is history. Also I think i will buy one for my niece as this would be a great machine to learn on. Thank you for this cute little machine.

We ordered this sewing machine for our 7 year old granddaughters birthday. It has all the features of an adult version. Easy to use. It worked perfectly for several sewing projects. Then it began to lose power. I contacted the seller who was kind enough to send us a brand new machine within one week which seems to be working perfectly. The seller also provided me with a return label so that I was able to return the first machine at no cost or inconvenience. I really appreciate the excellent service as our granddaughter was very disappointed with the first machine and is now happily completing a sewing project; 2 mattress covers and 4 pillows for her favorite dolls bunk bed that we designed and built together!

Petit modèle de machine à coudre, compacte, légère, facile à transporter et à installer. Facile d’utilisation et fait de la couture de qualité. Je suis très satisfaite de cet achat.

Machine is not stitching

My 9 years old daughter loved it!!! It is working fine and delivery was super fast.

I am return tha item

This machine has excellent video instructions and I was able to thread the machine, wind the bobbins, and sew materials together. The only negative was not being able to sew thick fabrics together - not the fault of the machine, it fully discloses that prior to purchasing. Overall, good product, great price, and enjoyable experience. For hemming, mending, sewing projects with most materials, this will do the job.