Unboxing my Husqvarna 145c

Ooops, I bought a new sewing machine this week. I blame my sister who took me to the Husqvarna store and pointed out that my old sewing machine was 19 years old, and maybe it was time to think about a new one. Of course once I had tried a new machine I couldn't resist buying it.

My choice of machine is the Husqvarna Viking 145c.

I chose Husqvarna because we have a proper store in town, and the owner is great with repairing, maintaining and generally helping out with machines. For an investment like this it feels a lot better to buy it, and support, a physical specialist store compared to a webshop. I've had my old Husqvarna for 14 years so I feel comfortable with them, and I know that Husqvarna is a high quality brand.  I also like that I my old special presserfeet are compatible, even if they are not ideal, with the new machine.

Now the Tribute itself is a limited edition. It was made for Husqvarna's 145th anniversary, hence the name. It is basically a Husqvarna Opal 670, with a different design on the outside. Great for me since the colour scheme for the Tribute goes really well with my sewing area, while the Opal would have clashed.

The opening of the box

The machine is packed with both plastic and styrofam, and there's a cardbox package with some of the smaller things.

The cardboard box contained the cords, the button hole maker, tools like a seamripper, screwdriver, brush and so on, underthread spools and an extra package of presser feet (I will come to them)

The sewing machine comes with a hard protective case. It definitely felt heavier than my old machine when I lifted it up to from the box.

There was more styrofoam and the foot pedal inside the hard case.

Here is the machine with everything unpacked. 

It has the full instruction booklet, but also a small quick guide to threading the maching. The presser fee included are A,B,C,D,E,J and a mini heirloom kit with a gathering foot, a clear piping foot and a braiding foot. I am really excited about these three presser feet, the gathering and piping feet has been on my wish list for a long time. I think they will be really fun to work with when I make 19th and early 20th century clothes.

The box for the accessories is big and roomy, but it is only one compartment. My old machine had two, a top one for the presser feet and everything else was in the bottom. Now it feels like everything gets thrown and it will be harder to find the presser feet when you need to change.

This is a digital machine with a big display. The display feels quite intuitive to find your way around. All the symbols above tells you what you need to do when sewing. You have to choose your material and technique, and then it recommends needles, presserfeet preassure, choice of presserfoot and the square about the HA means that I should use some kind of interfacing.

I had to try one of the many decorative stitches, and tried to program it to write my name.

Except for me not using an interfacing and managing to write the name backwards it was heasy an the seam looked nice. I definitely have to work more with this to finetune it.

Overall I am excited about this machine even if I expect there to be a learning curve to really finetune it.