Reasons for Trading My Bernina 770QE Story

Reasons for Trading My Bernina 770QE

Here's why I bought and then traded in my Bernina 770QE less than a year later.

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I saw loads of quilters I had heard of endorsing it, including Tula Pink, and I had of course seen loads of quilters on YouTube using Berninas beforehand.

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It's the large throat space to the right of the needle, high-precision stitches, and the Bernina Stitch Regulator (BSR) for me.

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The throat space on my Janome 4300QDC was 6.8 inches, and the Bernina had 10 inches to the right of the needle.

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Why I Traded in my Bernina 770QE

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I had researched over the days when the machine was getting serviced and found a Pfaff Quilt Expression 720 that I thought I was interested in.

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The Pfaff was cheaper in the end and my trade-in for the Bernina was not that great so in the end I went with the Pfaff as it was already an expense I hadn’t really budgeted for.

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