What "Smaller" Machines are Best Buy

i know a few people who travel to shows and use the Happy Voyager. Might be worth a look.

http://www.happyemb.com/bus_voyager.htm

try a brother like a 600 model those are pretty versatile and will handle direct embroidery.

Many people are happy with the Tajima Neo machine for its portability. There was a thread on Pulse List (the sofware that most Tajima owners use) this week about how great the Neo is for mobile embroidery.

We also own two SWFs and they are great machines. we first purchased a Babylock EMP6, and have used it for two years with very little trouble, we are lucky that our dealer is nearby and they have been great to work with, so we purchased a second Babylock, this one is the newer version, the EMP8, and I used it today for approximately 6 hours straight at a craft show, and only had one thread breaks. Machines are light enough that I can easily pick it up and with two people it is a piece of cake. We use our SWFs at home all the time for large jobs they are much faster, but we have been very comfortable with the BabyLocks, actually while I was working one show, my wife was at a second with the older Babylock and had no problems. Easy to learn to use and very dependable. I have seen some listed on EBay with 1,000 + hours and millions of stitches. Good luck.

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Check out the Brother 600 its a pretty good entry level machine that can handle small jobs. Aslo you can pick them up fairly cheap depending on your budget