The Husqvarna Viking DESIGNER DIAMOND Sewing and Embroidery Machine is Unveiled….DROOL!
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
The Designer Diamond™ has just been unveiled by Husqvarna Viking. If my currency conversion is correct, it should retail at approximately $7,000.00 USD.
Now anyone who knows me, knows I just love Diamonds…so I REALLY must stop myself from stumbling by my local Husqvarna store and putting one of these beauties in my trunk. Really.
Truth be told…Mr. Diva™ would buy one of these for me in a heartbeat. All I would have to do is look at him a certain way casually mention it. But if I am honest with myself, I know I just don’t need it (I already have 6 Vikings). I may WANT it…but the purchase of yet another Husqvarna sewing machine would be pure greed overkill. I think my next sewing machine purchase will be an industrial coverstitch machine…yep. However, I’m thinking it might be best to get the four Industrial straight stitch machines out of my garage and put them to use before I purchase another machine, KWIM?
Happy Sewing!
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mermaids | Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 10:46 am
seven grand?!?! seriously? it does look nice and knowing viking, it is awesome, but seven grand? even if the dealer has some “wiggle room,” waaaay out of my price range. these high end machines are lovely, but how many people are running with an extra seven grand to spend on a sewing machine?
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Jill | Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 12:13 pm
regardless of cost…. i’m drooling! don’t need one at all, but i’m a sucker for a beautiful sewing machine.
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Mary | Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Wowsa! It’s awfully pretty but $7K would buy me a better camera AND a couple of high-end lenses. But I may have to use this one for leverage when I try to convince Honey that I *need* and embroidery machine. LOL!
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Beth | Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 4:00 pm
My rising senior needs a car more than I need another machine.
Why do they have to make these machines so enticing?
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Robin Smallen | Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 8:26 pm
MSRP is $9000 USD. Big pile of pennies! But it’s a really, really nice machine….so nice I am selling two gently used, fairly new TOL to get one! (I broke the news to DH today and justified by telling him that ultimately I was reducing the machine inventory by ONE so it was a very good thing to do. He walked away scratching his head but nodding in agreement….)
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thedomesticdiva | Friday, June 20, 2008 at 7:08 am
You lucky duck Robin!!! Good for you! Let us know who wonderful it is.
With friendship,
Lisa
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Zoe | Friday, June 20, 2008 at 10:59 am
I have a sewing machine addiction, always viewing a new machine empowers me but my new roof, and bathroom remodeling after a broken pipe has cured me?…………..
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Amanda | Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 3:27 am
Actually the new TOP OF THE LINE Husqvarna Viking Designer DIAMOND retails for $8999.00 (AND SO WORTH IT !!!)
The previous TOL Husqvarna Viking Designer SE Limited Edition still retails at $7999.00 (ALSO COMPLETELY WORTH EVERY PENNY)
I would never sew on anything but a Husqvara Viking. The other brands don’t compare.
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Eliza | Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 9:27 am
Ack, 9 grand?
Watched the demo online and sure, its utterly fantastic! I do hand embroidery and as much as I would love to have one (who wouldn’t)? That is a price tag I cannot justify right now.
Hubby got me the 936 Husky Serger last year for my birthday and that wasn’t cheap. Have to admit though, that was my first Husky brand machine and will never buy any other brand (waiting impatiently for the Brother sewing machine to crash and fail so I can replace it with a Husky)
I know they tote the Diamond as limited (not sure how limited it is) hoping that maybe in a couple of years the price might jog down a bit.
Don’t even want to mention it to my hubby as I know him and he would go right out and get it for me (yes, I have that kind of husband)!
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Connie Chamberlain | Sunday, June 22, 2008 at 12:28 pm
I don’t see where there any better than all the rest.
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Jennifer S. | Sunday, June 22, 2008 at 6:25 pm
I just spent 2 hours in a demo class on this machine and it is incredible!!!!!!!!! I really had no idea what I was getting into when I signed up for this demo today. I have the HV Designer 1 and I resisted upgrading to the SE because I just wasn’t ready and I didn’t think there were that many improvements that made it worth changing machines. This new Designer Diamond just blows my mind.
It sewed like a dream. It embroidered like a dream. It has over 1,000 built in stitches (including the little symbols for fabric care in line stitch). It has a GIGANTIC embroidery surface (360×350) and you don’t have to remove the embroidery arm for regular sewing. There are all kinds of adjustments that you can make to the embroidery design that used to have to be done on your computer before moving the design to the machine. I can’t possibly go into every detail of what this amazing machine can do.
I didn’t come home with one is because 1. I was (still am) feeling sick 2. I couldn’t fit the boxes in my husbands car (which I was driving today) & 3. I want to see if my husband will buy it for me.
Cheers!
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Kris | Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 2:14 pm
I just picked my Diamond up on Tuesday (July 1st). Yes. I’m a bit embarrassed that I spent that much on a sewing machine, but I am BLOWN away by this machine. My favorite feature (design positioning) sounds trivial unless you’ve ever tried to piece together huge embroideries. (I design murals and such.) The Design Positioning feature saved me SO much time. Basically you load a design, click on any place on the design and the machine will move the hoop so that the needle hovers over that point on the hoop. Then you just push the arrow keys until the needle is hovering over the place in the hoop where you want that point to land. Than you can pick another point and rotate and manipulate it until you have your design lined up exactly where you want it. It took me about 30 seconds to completely line up a design which would have taken me about 20 minutes on my old machine. I am SO excited.
It also stiched out about 200,000 stitches yesterday without ever breaking a thread or making an error. This is a TOTALLY new concept for me. It has a countdown timer that tells me how much longer it will take to stitch out a color (as well as stitch countdown for both the color and the total design.) So I got to the point yesterday where I trusted it enough to leave for the 30 minutes it would take to finish stitching out a color. AWESOME!
I wasn’t sure I had done the right thing when I traded in for this machine, but now I couldn’t be happier!
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Susana | Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 9:20 pm
I ‘m dying to get this machine. I owne one already and I love the HV. But… still a little too high for me. I just have to waite for the price to drop some.
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Mil | Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 11:02 pm
You gals who HAVE the new Diamond are . . . geez, I don’t know, in sewing HEAVEN?! I would actually settle for the SE at this time; a couple on eBay for good prices because their owners stepped up to the Diamond. But . . . two kids in college; need I say more.
Y’all enjoy yourselves, and I’ll keep using my little HV Rose and dream of bigger hoops!
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Jan Barbas | Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Could not stand my Vista Software from Microsoft so I bought a new Apple. It is awesome!!! But guess I have to sell all my Huskavarna sewing machines since they refuse to support Apple.
Too bad, because the lines are wrapped around the mall to buy Apple. Once someone’s XP breaks and they have to go to Vista they soon get frustrated and go Apple. Guess Viking is not interested in the wave of the future - will they hang on to the Microsoft monopoly forever?
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Ann Stuart | Friday, August 8, 2008 at 10:35 pm
I have heard some great things about the Designer Diamond. Unfortunately I cannot justify going out and buying one. I already have 2 Viking sewing machines & 2 Viking sergers. Twenty-two years ago I bought a 990. It is still sewing just like the day I got it. I have only had to replace the motherboard 1 time & that was 13 years ago. I recently had a minor problem with the feed dogs but the repair man was astonished at the age of the machine and that it still sewed so well. The 440 serger was free with the 990. (No dealers remember the Viking 440 serger & the stitch is different from other sergers. There is a chain stitch an 8th of an inch from the overlock stitch.)
I also have a Designer 1 & got a Huskylock 905 serger free with it. I still do most of my sewing on my 990 & use the Designer 1 for embroidery & other projects such as quilting.
I truthfully cannot justify buying the Designer Diamond but if I could I ‘d certainly do so. It would cut down on the many steps you have to go through with the Designer 1.
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Ruby godbey | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 at 2:46 pm
I want to know how to buy this new machine and prehaps trade my quilting machine which has never been used because at the shop it will work and in my sewing room will not work
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Deborah Lane | Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 11:31 am
I ordered my Diamond yesterday - yes, it is pricey, but after the demo, it was impossible to walk away without ordering one. Quite a few design upgrades have been made, and I couldn’t be more pleased!!