Originally Posted by BellaBoo
It's a great machine. I tested one out in Paducah and it was a dream. I came very close to saying yes here is my check! But I walked away to give myself time to think. Would I really use all the features of it? 99% of my quilting is sewing a straight seam with a 1/4 seam. I can machine quilt perfectly straight lines with a walking foot. I don't do fancy machine quilting but maybe one quilt a year if that. I can see where I would have my Featherweight out doing most of my piecing and the expensive Bernina sitting there saying look you could have had the Accucut with every die made instead of me, heck you could have had lipo instead, you could have your whole lawn professionally landscaped instead, you could have bought ever fabric line there is instead of me. Having a machine sitting mocking me while I pieced on my Featerweight didn't seem like such a good buy afterall. :wink: :wink:
i'm with you on this one too.
my quilts won't look thousands of dollars better and i won't be able to sell them for thousands of dollars more nor will i have thousand of dollars more in quilting enjoyment because i sew on a bernina.
there are really great machines on the market that sell for considerably less money and yield the exact same results.
its not that i'm not worth buying an expensive toy for myself its their machine is not worth the amount of money they ask for it.