Beware of repair, however. I took an old Singer into a shop to have the zigzag fixed--it wouldn't zigzag. At the time, I wasn't sewing much--only Halloween costumes for the kids. I went to pick up the machine after it was fixed and paid $85 (this was 20 years ago--expensive!), then took it home and put it away. When I got the machine out again many months later, the zigzag still didn't work. When I took it back to the shop, the shop was out of business. Drat!