About this site

This site helps you choose and keep running a sewing or embroidery machine, with facts you can check: the maker’s manual and specification sheet, the embroidery field drawn to scale, which hoops, feet and file formats fit which machine. It starts with embroidery machines and quilting, and covers sergers, heavy fabrics, accessories and troubleshooting.

Who writes it

The guides are researched and written by Mira Lane, an independent writer based in Quebec, Canada. The author publishes under a pen name. We are not a sewing machine dealer or repair shop, and we do not sell machines.

What the guides are based on

Every guide cites its sources at the bottom of the page and says what we checked and what we did not. We have not tested the machines we cover. When a detail decides what you can make, such as the embroidery field or which hoop fits, we take it from the maker’s own documents and say so.

Why inches and millimetres

US readers and many patterns use inches. Makers’ manuals, embroidery files and Canadian shops often give millimetres. Every page lets you switch units, so the sizes match your manual and your hoop.

How the site is funded

Through affiliate commissions only: today, as an Amazon Associate. See our affiliate disclosure and how we research.