[QUOTE=Buckeye Rose;5421743]Unfortunately, the inexpensive Brother/Singer machines that you can buy off the shelf at a store like Walmart are not designed to last long,
I have a Brothers Project Runway CE-5000PRW that I paid around $160 for and use it for piecing all my quilts. I purchased it because I needed something portable to take to classes as my Babylock Ellegante embroidery machine was tooooo heavy. This little machine is a work horse. I've had it about 2 yrs and sew just about every day. I doubt I'll ever buy another $7,000 embroidery machine (cheap by todays new machines), but I'd sure not hesitate to buy another Brothers off the shelf at Walmart. Just MHO.
Viv