SINGER® Brilliance 6180 Portable Sewing Machine + Accessories| 180 Stitch Applications| Free Arm

Great little machine!!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] i always buy Singer machines. This one was bought for my niece. She was to learn and sew for herself. Singer is a good type of Machine.I have an older singer.

It's a decent machine, but you must have a computer, printer, ink and more than 70 sheets of paper to get a full owners manual in several different languages even though you only want English. I was willing to print the English pages however there were multiple languages on a lot of the pages. Singer no longer sends a manual when you purchase it's sewing machines.

The only thing I like about it was the price. Had a hard time trying to sew and to find out the needle was bend. I look through the manual to see what was the problem it had no other solutions beside stating to check the needle. The manual is a joke. It had a DVD, but I don't have a player. Now that I fix the problem it seem to work.

When it works it's good. We had to watch youtube video after video to figure it out. At least they are available if you search enough. It comes with no manual just a sheet on how to load thread, wind a bobbin and a few other little details. Not very intuitive for a brand new machine. The machine we have is 6180 brilliance, and it had no tools with it. Just a few needles, 2 bobbins and thread cutter. Compared to our original Kenmore, this thing has harder to reach threading areas. To wind a bobbin, it worked but the video helped. To thread the machine to and through the needle was a pain again compared to the Kenmore. The areas are hard to reach and see. The automatic needle threader was bent and after 2 hours i had to take a magnifying glass to see that this very minuute hook that is suppose to go thru the needle was bent. I carefully readjusted it back with my jewlers tools....man what a pain., but it works "now". After we got it all set up the C4 error occurred right away on the basic stitch. Found out via the video that the bobbin holder has a screw that was about 1/2 turn too tight causing it to bind and not work. the machine sounded terrible. Once we got that working, sewing has been great. Out of box issues: no manual - had to go on line, watch videos for 3 darn hours, bobbin holder too tight, needle was so tight a screwdriver had to be used really hard to remove it, the needle threader was not aligned from the factory. So bottom line, once you figure out how to correct what we think should be factory perfect settings out of the box ready to use, was hampered by not having them set. We got it working, but man, it was a battle. hope it works for years, but we are sceptical. Very respectfully, A & L

Difficult to use with poor eye sight

I am having an bad anxiety over this machine. I've sat down to work on it, but I'm always pulled away by the phone or neighbors . If you could send me another copy of the booklet, I would appreciate it.

Right out of the box the turning wheel is stiff and then it makes the loud grinding noise when I'm sewing. It doesn't sound right this is supposed to be a brand new machine. I wonder if it's a refurbished I paid for a brand new one.

Sad that they call this a Singer! Didn't reverse, foot off the pedal, kept running, sounded horrible!

I purchased this machine one week ago today. When I first saw it I was thrilled with all the things it would do. Not so thrilled anymore. After one week the needle threader no longer works. If I can get it to come down to use it won't go back up. When I step on the peddle to make the machine go some times I have to step on it several times before it starts the same with the reverse button. I have been a loyal singer owner for 40 years and this has really dissappointed me. I will be returning this machine and possibly looking into a different brand. If I hadn't had all the problems I would say this was a fantastic machine for the value.