Welcome back to New Day Northwest.
I'm really excited about my next
*** because she is going to help me
relearn something I used to do years
ago but haven't touched in a long time.
A sewing machine.
Carmen La Pont is here with me now.
Carmen and her family owned Quality
Sewings 10 shops in Western Washington.
Thank you for being here.
Thanks so much for having me.
OK, it's been 27 years,
but I don't want to brag,
but I do have to show you one picture.
OK. This is the family Flintstones.
And I did. So Fred and Wilma.
And Wilma actually has a zipper.
A nice work. Fred was very easy,
basically just to cut a seam.
I haven't sewn since and
that was 27 years ago.
So I think machines, I will tell you,
have changed a lot, by the way,
because I the first thing I said
is where's the pedal?
And you have pedals, but you don't
necessarily need them because you know,
but now there's a stop go button.
So you can still use a foot control.
All machines still have them,
but now there's a stop go button,
which is right here.
There's a speed control.
Wow. It's really easy to use.
OK, so they've changed a lot since then, yes.
Tell me about the one we're using today,
because it's pretty special.
Yeah.
So in front of me right here, I have
three different Brother sewing machines.
Brother makes easy to use.
They're just beautiful sewing machines.
And right here, this is the NS-80
and this is a great starter machine.
And you can see one of my favorite features
of these new machines is the needle fretter.
I was so excited about this because
I've spent so long going that.
Right. It's so hard.
Yeah, this is so easy.
You're going to demo that.
I have already threaded the machine
and now all I'm going to do is polite,
push this down here.
And just like that, boom,
my needle is threaded.
Wow, Just like that.
Super easy.
That is amazing right there.
The other thing that the
machines do today is they.
Are so easy to sew through many
different layers of fabric.
So you just hit
this, the go button.
I just hit the go button. Wow.
And it's going to go up and over
and through 9 layers of fabric and
then right on to this sheer Treco.
Let me get the under my foot control here.
There we go. But it's going to
sew through all of these layers.
Wow. So brick.
So 9 layers of denim of denim. Yes.
And then this very sheer Treco fabric.
Sheer Treco fabric, exactly.
And it went over and.
Through all the way through the
thick fabric here onto the fine
fabric without me changing anything,
I don't have to change my needles,
right? Right.
Because you used to have to change needles.
Yeah, you still need to change
your needles sometimes,
like when they get dull.
But what's great is that you
can sew on all types of fabric.
So when you're doing costumes like
you did that Flintstone costume,
you don't have to worry about
maybe I can't sew on that fabric.
Your machine's gonna handle it.
And Brother has lots of beautiful machines,
including ones that do embroidery,
which I want to talk about.
You're an authorized Brother dealer.
Yeah.
So what does that actually mean?
What that means is that we have a
larger selection of Brother machines,
and we have dealer exclusive machines that
only you can only find in a dealer store.
So an example of, like,
this beautiful machine over here,
this machine is sewing,
quilting embroidery.
And you can see how gorgeous.
And professional all the
embroidery is Brother is also one
of the only manufacturers that
has Disney embroidery designs.
So if you're into Disney,
Brother is your brand.
And I should say they're very high tech.
Yeah, you can do things with apps
on your phone and you can send pictures and.
For sure,
Brother has a really cool app
called Art Spira,
and that app connects to any of their
machines that are Wi-Fi enabled.
Because yes,
sewing machines are Wi-Fi enabled,
many of them.
And now that app you can do all
sorts of creative,
amazing things.
Well, so.
The other thing,
one thing I really love is that people,
if you're not sure
what you want, people can come
in and test drive your machines,
right? Yeah, we try them out.
You have the fabrics.
We have the fabrics of all sorts
of different types of fabrics.
Yeah. So we have 10 Puget Sound
locations all in Western Washington,
and you can come in and test
drive any of the machines.
We also teach free learn to use
your sewing machine classes.
And I like this idea because you can. It's
unlimited classes.
If you don't feel like you caught it,
you want to come back or you
need to brush up or something
more advanced, right.
Yeah, for sure. And it's free.
It is free and it is for any sewing,
sewing machine, quilting machine,
serger embroidery machine,
no matter when or where you purchased it.
But that is not all,
even if you can't get into one of my stores.
We even have on demand classes online
on learning how to use a large
variety of different sewing machines.
And I remember I asked you,
oh, so this machine
I probably wouldn't want to use
because it seems too fancy if I'm just
starting out and you were saying.
Buy one of the best machines you can
100% because it makes it easier. So
yes, the the more a machine can do,
the easier it is because all of these
machines have beautiful ease of use features.
So many ease of use features. OK, so let's
talk a little bit about
the machines themselves.
So what do you love about this one?
This guy here is a sewing machine,
but also an embroidery machine if
you can see the embroidery there.
And an embroidery machine.
And it is just super easy to use.
Has a beautiful touchscreen right here
so you can see there's a touchscreen.
Easy to just select the designs.
That you are not your grandma's machines.
No, they're not much like our phones.
Our sorry machines have trained
changed dramatically in 27 years.
But all for the better.
And it's so compact.
And this looks
like it just hooks on to the side. Yeah,
this just slides on here.
Well, super easy to use, very versatile.
This is the LB5000.
Really great if you have any interest.
And sewing, this is a great starter
machine and you said this is also
a really good starter machine.
This is also a great, the NS-80,
a really great starter machine as well.
Super easy. And then over here,
if you're into quilting,
this will be any, these machines that
have a larger chassis or frame, right.
They have all this space.
So you could put a big
project underneath there.
And I think we have a
moment to talk about some of these
projects that you that you actually made
on this machine. Yeah, yeah,
we made them on a quite a variety,
probably a variety of machines.
So this is a nice little bag that
was made and this is embroidered
the sew here over here we did some
customization so you know gone fishing
on a little jacket and you can
learn these in your classes as well.
We do yeah if you started with a machine
like this but then you want to get
into maybe embroidery you could
come and. Figure out how your
machine works. Yes, for sure.
For sure. And we also teach project
based classes that aren't free.
But maybe you want to learn how to
make pajama pants or something else.
We teach all of those classes as well.
On top of the free learn to use
your sewing machine classes. Okay
and I like that you have
a 90 day exchange program.
Yes so this is really fun
cuz this happens a lot like.
You're excited, you buy a new
sewing machine and you're like,
oh I'm having so much fun
and then you're like wait,
I wish my machine did more.
So we have a 90 day trade up program
so you can put the full value of
the machine that that you purchased
towards a new machine because we
want to make sure you find it.
You find the right machine for you. I
can tell you're passionate. What do
you personally love about sewing? What
do I love about sewing?
I love the creativity.
It is so fun to create
something with your hands,
you know, in a world with.
Where we're just looking at
computer screens coming away
and making something fun
like any of these beautiful
quilts or the bag is amazing.
And I know
quilting has had a great resurgence.
Yeah. So it's nice to see the creativity.
Thank you so much. Thank you. In August,
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Sewing will get exclusive access to new
product innovations for 2023 only available
through authorized sewing centers.
So to learn more about Quality Sewing
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