Mine was a Husqvarna Viking, don't remember the model as I only had it a few months before I traded up, won't tell how old I was, will just say DGS was 4 months old when I got it, he just turned 8 years old. Wanted to learn to quilt after he was born. Now I seem to be a vintage machine collector :) :) :) Might add that in these 8 years, my machine was in storage for probably 4 years, so I consider myself an intermediate beginner as a quilter.