Back when I'd put my entire sewing room into storage to sell the house I didn't realize it would take 3 years to sell due to the selling market at the time. So went out to purchase another simple machine and found a Janome one with the basic stitches plus the fancy stitches. Never could get the feel for it though it should have been a good machine. I finally gave it away to a friend that was looking into buying a machine. She in turn gave it to the fellow I'm teaching about making a quilt. He couldn't seem to get the hang of it either. Now I wanted a simple machine I could add borders and binding to my larger quilts, one I could set on one end of my cutting table and then move to the floor when I needed the entire cutting table to trim the quilt. I love this machine, a Brother XR3140 with a table. I haven't gone back to my old faithful D1 since. I liked it so much I ordered another one for the fellow I'm teaching. He loves his too so I guess I got lucky here and plus spent less than $200 for each of them. The Janome is back in its box in a corner.....forgotten.