Another warm welcome from Southern California! I had 3 FW's - thought my daughters would like to have one to keep on hand for mending. They wouldn't even take them home - so I kept one for me, gave one to my sister and the other to my niece. My sister quilts and belongs to a Guild - she wasn't familiar with FW's and so kept it as a back-up machine until a lady in her guild was bragging about her little FW. She has been taking it ever since. My niece has the machine my mother bought at Walmart years ago in case she needed to mend something, so I knew she would need a reliable machine. Mine sits on my shelf for the time being and just looks cute. (I need to take it down and sew with it a bit just to keep it primed and ready.