The Touch and Sew was the first machine I bought with my babysitting money as a 15 year old and I loved it! My understanding now is because it was not an all metal machine, some of the internal plastic/nylon gears, parts become brittle with age and break. Repairs may be expensive or difficult/impossible to fix. I would check out this before deciding on a Touch and Sew. The machines do sew well but the self winding bobbins may give trouble.