My daughters favorite machine is her Spartan. The two of us found it at the Goodwill for $20 and she wouldn't part with it for anything. We are sewingmachineaholics and have several sewing machines in our family. We have two Spartans now. Mom has the second one which was put back in service by my brother. He also build a beautiful wooden base for it to sit in before he surprised Mom with it. I hope you will love your Spartan as we do ours. (We share machines as we sew at eachothers homes.)