The Innov-is Stellaire range is the newest addition to the Brother embroidery lineup. The Stellaire XJ1 is a superb combination embroidery and sewing machine packed with a host of amazing features.
It all starts with the Stellaire XJ1s high resolution screen. This screen is not only a brilliant size for browsing through your sewing stitches, creating your own embroidery patterns or combining and editing embroidery designs at the touch of a finger, you can also use it to watch built in tutorial videos- it’s that clear!
On the sewing side the Stellaire XJ1 excels. It is just so easy to use, we always find that customers worry when looking at buying a high end machine that it will be too technical, too complicated but it really doesn’t work that way. The larger the display and the more room you have to sew, the easier things become. We’ve had complete beginners loving this machine who had been put off sewing entirely in the past because despite their interest they couldn’t make machines do what they wanted, or the results just weren’t good enough for the effort they were putting in. On the Stellaire XJ1 they have just hit the ground running- they already had the inspiration to sew but this machine just made things easier from the get go.
The fun starts with the simple things like a drop in bobbin. Wind your bobbin, drop it in the holder, put the thread round a plastic guide and you’re good to go. Then use the Stellaire XJ1s electronic automatic needle threader- you put your thread on top of the machine, pull it round the numbered path and push a button to thread- it’s that simple. Speaking of simple, when you finish stitching your row you can set your machine to automatically secure the stitching and cut the thread- not just amazing but a great time saver too.
One of our favourite things about the sewing side of the Stellaire XJ1 is the size of the machine itself- the bed of the machine is so roomy. All the projects that you had difficultly squeezing through your smaller machine- just imagine how much simpler life will be with all that extra space.
As an embroidery machine the Stellaire XJ1 has all of the features you expect from a high end embroidery machine and a few more besides. Yes it has a large hoop area of 9.4x14.1 inches(24x36cm) and yes, you’ll be spoilt for choice with hundreds of built-in embroidery designs, including a hundred Disney designs but the Stellaire XJ1 also comes with its own design features – you can add stippling or even a decorative quilting stitch to your embroidery, and you can even make your own patterns from scratch. Okay, we get that ‘from scratch’ is a scary term for a lot of people, but don’t worry, that’s what we’re here for, making sure you use all the bits of the machine- not just the bits you’re comfortable with! All you really need is a start- we’ll take you through making basic shapes, to combining shapes and learning all the programme features before moving on to making and using basic drawings to make embroidery designs you can be proud of.