Ms Grace, So very sorry for your loss. I also am a Pfaff gal, the old West Germany machines are just so very hard to beat. When I had to take mine in to be worked on, the guy who did it couldn't believe how quiet and what a wonderful stitches she still has. I have found that I am going backwards in Pfaff years. The new Pfaffs are nice, but just not the same. A LQS owner is a Pfaff gal too, her husband finds older Pfaffs and makes them purr like new. These are all before computer motherboards, but they sew like champs. I have found an Embroidery machine only on a good deal, so I have it for anything fancy I want. But still have my Pfaff for all of my sewing. This might be something you look into. Good luck