Yea! love your story and the machine looks very nice! If I was still into doing more upholstery type stuff, I'd love to have one like that too.
I'm been hearing this little voice whisper "a blind hemmer would be useful . . ." but so far I've been able to ignore it. I don't know exactly What it would be useful for with my sewing needs. Maybe it's just a hold over from the years of doing alterations where one would have been great to have.
I shouldn't be greedy though, since I'm getting a building to put my machines in too. It really isn't going to give me a lot more room to buy more, it will mostly give me my house back.