Originally Posted by
Wanabee Quiltin
I have a vintage Pfaff and it is absolutely wonderful. My friend Jill has a brand new one with all the bells and whistles, cost her $900 on sale and it is fabulous too. German made, these sewing machines are really good.
Don't want to rain on anyone's parade BUT - Pfaffs are no longer made in Germany and they haven't been for about the last 10 years.
The older Tiptronics and the great 7000 series machines were all German-made (pre-2000). But the more recent Expression models and 2000 series machines have been made elsewhere - Sweden, Czechoslovakia etc - and now China.
Also, the Grandquilter is made by Janome, it's exactly the same machine as the Janome 1600 and Viking Megaquilter. Janome just puts different housings on them.
Viking's parent company bought Pfaff and first shifted manufacturing to Sweden & Czech. Then to cut costs, manufacturing was moved to China about 5 years ago. Unless something has changed again that I'm not aware of, Pfaffs are coming from China.