Just consider yourself a "lucky"duck. I have two featherweights and I won't trade them for the world. My youngest daughter took my cream one to college with her for 4 years. As soon as she graduated I told her to bring it back. I keep one in our RV along with a small quilting project. The other one is at home and travels with me when we just go by car. I've decided that the featherweights are my security blanket. I took the car one with me to a quilt retreat in Louisiana last year as a back up machine and the first day one of the sewers "brand new" machine would not keep the tension right and after having a repair guy try to get it corrected all day, I brought out my trusty traveler and she sewer the next 5 days on my featherweight The stich is perfect and the machine is just about industrucible....and you can sew anywhere ....even on a TV tray.