My oldest daughter has never been interested at all in learning to sew and I always found that a little disappointing. She is now 28 and taken up sewing with a vengence making doggy fashions. Now things are rapidly starting to disappear from my sewing room - fabric, scissors, thread, elastic, rotary cutter, mat, large folding table and my Husqvarna Prelude 350 with the quilter's table and walking foot. She loves the machine which is great but it was my leave it packed ready to take to class machine. This is probably the down side of having a daughter bitten by the stitching bug.