Originally Posted by
Tsuru
My wife's got 2 sewing machines and sews leather and duckcloth bags, has been making clothes and bags for years. She almost went to an industrial, but you are limited on stitch types, I believe. Anyways, she's working on a special order messenger bag, so you can always email her and she'll probably help out.
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True about the limit on stitch types. My mother's commercial machines all did one thing. Her regular stitch machine straight stitched, she had a hemming machine, and so on.