I had this machine for many, many years until it finally gave up the ghost and could not be repaired. It sewed anything and everything. I have had many brands of machines over the years and currently have a Bernina which is great but this Pfaff was truely the best machine I have ever used. I hope you enjoy it and find it to be the long serving workhorse mine was. Coincidently I just went today to look at purchasing a second machine and the one I'm considering is a Pfaff due totally to my fond memories of this one.