My very, very favorite is and has always been my Elna Quilter's Pro 7200 - but it is broken. I live in the very northern part of central Washington (a little on the east side of central) and my husband is my sewing machine mechanic. It has never been broken and I think I've had it for 10 years. Anyway, in talking to the store where I bought it in Southern Calif., he said it sounded like a fuse. Well, duh, I didn't even know sewing machines had fuses. Since my husband is the only sewing machine guy in these parts and has never worked on an Elna (which says a lot for their machines) this will be a learning curve for him. He promised I was next on the list. In the meantime, I'm on my Babylock. That one starts beeping that you're running out of bobbin thread when it's at the half way mark. UGH