I just started sewing again recently. I gave away 2 machines and bought 4 the first week I joined my quilting guild... The first one I bought because it was in a beautiful hard wood cabinet... didn't really care about the machine... it's a Golden Touch and Sew Limited edition (had is serviced and works perfect!) Next I bought another Singer machine a bit newer from a gay guy that knew nothing about it and was still crying about putting his 95 year old mother in a nursing home... had it serviced and worked fine... In the mean time my "Quilt Mother" said just get a "Featherweight!" which I did... works great! But only goes straight... Went to my first quilt show and tried out all the machines and fell in love with the Viking and wanted a machine that did sewing and embroidery... found someone that had just upgraded to the Diamond and bought her Designer SE that came with a table, fabric mover and lots of extras... My brother contacted me about sewing machines and seeing how I now had 4 I mailed one the newer Singer to him in Hawaii... Can you believe it my damn sewing machine made it to Hawaii before I do! After parting with the "portable" sewing machine that does other stitches beside "straight" I bought a BabyLock from the guy with whom I had been picking his brains about machine reliability for weeks and his daughter was wanting to upgrade so I took it off his hands to keep in the trunk of my car for class. I also bought a Pfaff serger which is great! and I'm looking for a long arm... think that's it...lol