The Brother CE 5500PRW sewing machine is one of the least expensive Project Runway machines you can buy. This is a compact, lightweight machine with lots of features suitable for making clothes, light quilting and free-motion embroidery.

It’s been awarded a Consumers Digest ‘Best Buy’ Award and, for now, Walmart.com is the only authorized dealer.

It’s smaller and lighter than comparable machines making it highly portable.

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Know a student who is taking a sewing machine to college?  I bet some do but it didn’t really hit me until I walked into Joanne’s the other day and saw – unexpectedly – a ton of dorm room décor right up front.

This was unexpected for two reasons the first of which came in the form of “Dear Lord, school starting up again so soon?” and the second was that I had sewing machines and fabric on my mind and seeing small dust pans with mini brushes and plastic drawer organizers in multi-colors wasn’t quite what I thought I’d see when I first walked in to a well-known fabric and sewing notions store.

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