Singer 9960 Quantum Stylist - Everything You Need and More

There are many machines that cost more than the Singer 9960 Quantum Stylist and don't have half the options this one has. This presents a great opportunity for even the most novice sewer to invest in a machine that will truly serve them for years.

The Stylist makes sewing as easy as possible with automated controls, speed control, and push button operations for everything including thread cutting. It has an incredibly sleek style, reminiscent of the Futura series, where the majority of the controls are placed low on a panel that sort of curves out to meet you. This makes them very easy to reach during sewing.

The Singer 9960 first catches your eye because of the large number of stitches - a total of 600 built-in patterns. The maximum stitch width is 7mm.

There's an automatic locking stitch for the decorative stitches and a Tack button so you can tie off your utility stitches.

This stitch collection can handle everything from basting to quilting to professional clothes-making and loads of creative projects.

The buttonholes are auto-sized which means that you put the button itself in the buttonhole presser foot and the machine gauges the proper length and width to fit your button.

Granted, the stitch count on this machine looks so impressive because it includes all the characters in five font styles. Still, most machines in this price range come with just one font and usually a plain, block font, at that. With this one, you get a lot more variety and some pretty nice looking choices.

Stitch Creativity

One of the Singer 9960's strengths is stitch creativity and customization. You can edit most stitches in a number of ways. You can change the width, the length, and do a mirror image of the stitch.

Extra Presser Feet Add to the Value

You get so many presser feet with this machine that it's easy to miss that this is a huge value all by itself:

All purpose foot

Zipper foot

Button sewing foot

Satin stitch foot

Buttonhole foot with underplate

Open toe foot

Blind hem foot

Overcastting foot

Narrow hem foot

Cording foot

?�A� inch foot

Darning and embroidery foot

Even feed foot

Features

First, there are all the basic features you expect from a machine in this category such as an automatic needle threader and drop feed dogs.

Next are the more involved features meant to make sewing so much easier.

There are three ways you can control the speed of the machine. The Start/Stop button performs just as its name implies. It starts or stops the sewing process and can be used in place of the foot pedal. Just remove the foot pedal entirely and use the Start/Stop button in conjunction with the speed control slider to handle the speed of the needle.

The Needle Up/Down button acts like the hand wheel on the side and will raise or lower the needle when pressed. You can also program it to always stop in either the up or down position depending on your needs. When you know you're going to have to pivot the fabric to sew a corner, you can tell the machine to leave the needle in the down position when you stop sewing, rotate the fabric around the needle and pick up again without skipping a stitch.

Use the Electronic Twin Needle control to let the machine know that you're switching to twin needle sewing.

An Automatic Locking Stitch Function will tie off your stitches.

A set of direct stitch selection buttons let you choose the most used utility stitches without having to enter any pattern numbers.

The size of the LCD screen must be its pride and joy. It's extremely large. The icons and information displayed are then also larger than on other machines.

A button on the front of the free arm lets you drop the feed dogs for free motion sewing, free motion embroidery and darning by hand.

The generous stitches, selection of fonts and customization available at a competitive price are all great reasons to further research whether this might be the perfect machine for you.