I vote for a Bernina. You can get a used one on eBay. I had four!! Bernina 1020. It was the last mechanical machine before they got into computers. What I loved about it was that is would sew sick. If there was something going wrong with it, it would still sew when all the other would quit. I had Elna, Janome, Singer, Kenmore, even a White. But then I bought a computerized Bernina and hated it.
Marcia