I have three Featherweight machines and two houses. I keep one at each house and the third one travels between the two. Two are inherited from grandmothers which makes them special and the third I stumbled on in a resale shop for a price too good to pass up. I use them all the time. They are my go-to machines for piecing and general sewing. I take one along on vacations when we are going to be staying in one place for a week. I have great joy using them. For FMQ and zig zag I use my heavier Viking machine so I would not want my Featherweight to be my only machine but it is definitely the one most used.