I too love my old machines. No Featherweight yet....one day maybe. I have recently gotten a Rocketeer and let me tell you that thing is a piece of beauty! It sews wonderfully. Does all the decorative stitches I need, and it free motion quilts so easily! I was like wow! this is actually easy! My newer Kenmore that did embroidery and stitches (and is now dead) would never fmq and did not stitch as nicely. And like another poster said the stability of one of these in a cabinet is wonderful. Plus there is just some connection to women that lived before us and sewed on these machines. i sit down at my treadle and it just makes me feel closer to my Grannie and great Grandmother.....this was like the machine they sewed on.