The Brother Innov-is Stellaire XE1 is the machine we here at Caffle have been waiting for for so long and now we have it.
For years we’ve been asking for a high end, embroidery only machine and now we have it. It’s not that we don’t like the sewing or functionality of the combined machines. It’s just that when people are looking at these machines there are three main reasons they don’t want to have sewing and embroidery together in the same machine:
1) They already have a sewing machine that does exactly what they want
2) They want to be able to sew and embroider at the same time
3) They have zero interest in sewing and don’t want to pay for something they know they are never going to use.
In 2012 Brother brought out the Innov-is V3 – now don't get us wrong it was, and still is, a great machine- colour screen, ablily to edit and combine designs, USB slot makes getting designs in nice and easy, and a generous 7x11.8 inch hoop size but it still doesn’t have all the top end features that customers want in an embroidery machine. Then, in 2019 Brother brought out their new Innov-is Stellaire range including this, the Stellaire XE1 embroidery only machine. This machine still has all the features you’ll find on the Innov-is V3, but over and above that it has an awesome 9.4x14.1 inches (24x36cm) hoop size, an extra 500 built-in designs, it’s own built-in embroidery design centre, when stitching out designs you have the ability to change the density of a design- putting in, or taking out stitches to improve the quality of your stitch out andyou can use stipple and other fill stitching either by themselves or in combination with other designs to make truly unique embroidery.
With the use of the My Design Snap app you can even take a picture of your fabric for perfect placement every time. In fact, the Stellaire XE1 has all the embroidery and design functionality of the Stellaire XJ1, it just doesn’t sew- and at £4,599 it is £2,700 cheaper than the combined machine making it a more comfortable price point for most.