Brother PE525 is a quality embroidery machine with good features. It even has USB connectivity. It will be an excellent tool for beginners.

Janome 8002D is a little workhorse. Stitch quality is one of its main hallmarks. It is a great starter machine, but it misses out on free arm though.

Juki MO644D is a beginners' favorite. This is because of its ease of use, features and durability. However there is no free arm option on this serger.

Janome 6500P is feature packed. At the same time, it oozes quality. The machine has excellent stitch quality.

If you accept Michley SS-700 as an entry level sewing machine, you will be pretty happy with it. It does a good job.

Janome Cover Pro 1000CPX is a quality cover stitch machine. Ergonomics and stitch quality are some of the virtues of this machine.

Brother XL3500I has good stitch quality. It is a very lightweight sewing machine. It has enough features to grow your skills as a beginner sewer. 

Singer Superb 2010 is a good computerized sewing machine. It offers lot of features and has good stitch quality.

Singer 5625 has 227 built-in stitches including 6 one-step buttonholes and an endless buttonhole. 

We are really impressed by the quality that Juki MO-623 offers. However The machine is limited to 2 or 3 threads only.

It is a very good serger to consider. The stitch quality of Juki MO-735 is very good, it has 5 thread capability and it has a variety of features to go with .

Janome 525s oozes class. However we would have liked to have few more built-in stitches. Other than that, it is almost picture perfect.

As far as features and stitch quality are concerned, Brother XR3140 ticks almost all check boxes. Presser foot pressure adjustment option is not there though.

Brother CS770 has nice variety of stitch options. The machine is very user friendly, there are no complicated buttons and controls.

As an overall package, we are very much impressed with the performance and features of Singer XL-420. But it misses out on an automatic thread cutter.

If you are a person who can be happy with a great stitching mechanical sewing machine with limited number of stitches and features, FSR21 is your machine.

Brother SM8270 is feature packed. It can sew wonderful stitches, but we would like the fonts to be little bit bigger. 

Like its smaller brother the PE770, we are impressed with what Brother SE1800 brings to the table. It is a quality sewing and embroidery combo machine.