How many machines can you all sew on at the same time? Last night I made two potato bags and had my Janome 4800 and my serger plugged in at the same time, but the Kenmore in its cabinet and the Singer in its cabinet just sat there, loved but unused.
I love the old Kenmore, all metal with cams for fancy stitches, but getting it out of the cabinet to a repair shop for routine maintenance requires a winch (well, not quite, but almost) and the Singer makes a wonderful straight stitch, but I don't have room for all four machines in the same room. The Janome goes to classes and all-day sews. It probably weighs more than 9 or 11 pounds, but it also has lots of different stitches and lots of possibilities a FW doesn't have.
But all your talk about FW's has tempted me to look for a piece of equipment that I don't need and probably would never use.
Kindly stop leading me into temptation! froggyintexas