Another Viking girl here. Love my Platinum - which is about 10+ years old now but sews like a dream. The only thing it hasn't handled thus far was the welting on the boat canvas DH wanted me to repair! As to stash - I'm not a 'stasher' per se. I only buy for projects and just over buy what I'm getting for any given thing. I'm not into scrappy quilts and would just be afraid my tastes would change or that I'd decide I wanted to make x size quilt with y fabric and not have enough of it in my stash! Plus I have zero extra space for much of anything, despite (or maybe because of) DH's penchant for bringing all kinds of stuff home!