machine embroidery?

I'm looking to buy an embroidery machine. All I want to do is monograms, such as tape. Do I really need to buy an expensive machine or can I go out with something under $ 500.00. And if I do not really need an expensive machine, What machine would you recommend. Thank you

it depends on the size you need monograms to be. I have a Kenmore (made by janome) which is not even an embroidery machine but do small (probably about 1 / 4 inch) lettering. if you need an embroidery machine you could go with just a 4x4 embroidery field. i perfer brother machines for embroidery. Wal-Mart sells a machine which is a basic embriodery. he has a couple of fonts with it. I not really checked because I have a brother ult2002D. I followed some of the prices on e-bay lately and you might consider a used machine. Here is an excellent site for embroidery designs. they give 49 free designs every day. They also give police free from time to time if you Joing their yahoo group. http://www.designsbysick.com/amember/go.php?r=5647&i=l0 "Designs> Embroidery Library SICK have fun with your new adventure.

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