Legacy SE340

I love everything about this machine! After using the machine for embroidery I did some sewing and it sewed very well but the reverse function is problematic, you have to be sewing forward and reverse while sewing. It isn’t a deal breaker but now I use another machine for sewing and this one for embroidery.

I bought this machine a year and a half ago and wanted to really use it for a while before giving it a review. So here it is: It Stinks! The embroidery part worked great for a couple of months (I maybe did 15 different embroidery projects) then it started jamming up, broken thread, big knotted birds nests of thread underneath the hoop. I tried multiple different things to fix to no avail. I finally just decided to use it as a second regular sewing machine. I use it constantly because I make doll clothes that I sell on Etsy so I’m just using regular cotton fabric, regular thread, straight stitching and zigzagging, in other words “nothing fancy”. The thread jams multiple times and I have to stop, pull out seams that have been ruined, re-thread the machine over and over and over again. I’ve cleaned it, put in new needles, new bobbin cases, nothing fixes the problem. I can not wait to save up some money and just buy a Brother from Walmart and throw this thing in the trash. I wouldn’t even give it away, I wouldn’t want someone to go through this hell. Don’t Buy it!

Let me start off by saying .. it’s a good machine .. but there are a couple of things I highly dislike about it. The monitor is black and white so you can’t tell what colors you need unless you remember what’s on the computer .. there’s only one usb you can use so please don’t lose it. There’s no many things that compatible with it. Like buying a BMW and have to take it back to BMW for anything that’s needed.

So far I had my machine for a month and it’s been great! Easy setup, design come out very nicely and not to heavy to move around but very stable in my opinion. For the money I think it is a great value

Overall, good sewing machine. I did have to set the bobbin tension for the embroidery setting which is a bit aggravating when you switch from sewing to embroidery. I suggest having an extra bobbin, one for sewing, one for embroidery.

I have only embroidered with it once and loved it! I have mostly been sewing with this machine so far! So much easier to use than my old machine!! This is the 1st time I've ever had a machine that will thread the needle and will never own another that doesn't!! The only problem I have had is with the memory stick, I can't get this to print the pages from my computer as it says!! I will have to contact someone for help with that!!

I really wanted to love this machine. It has a 6x10 embroidery area and that was what I was looking for. It’s beautiful right out of the box. Sleek. Pretty. I finally figured out how to embroider a design and in the middle of it, the motor overload message popped up. I finally got the design finished. It was a simple snowflake built in design. Then I tried a name. Motor overload message twice. Needles break easily and they bend. Went through a whole package quickly. Thread bunched under bobbin. Not a good machine. Screen is in black and white and does not tell you where it is going to begin. Unless you print out the designs in color, you will not know which color to begin with or which color to change it to when it’s time for a thread change. It was cheap for the size embroidery area but if it doesn’t work well, it’s not a good deal. I used to use Singer all the time. Then went to Brother then Janome. I love the Brother and Janome. Both are very user friendly. Singer has gone way downhill on their quality. It’s a shame because they could have made this into a great embroidery machine. It looks great. Sorry to say that I had to return it.

So far loving it. The only thing I have disliked is the embroidery program you can not do anyrhing with it you actually have to buy a separate program to be able to actually do some good designs.