Love my Crescendo. Great throat space and table, great light, awesome needle threader, excellent stitch quality, lots of stitch choices, needle up/down, motor speed control, easy to clean.......I do like the laser beam to a point but don't use it as much as I expected. Also have not yet used the digitizer (no need for it so far). The Muvit foot is very clunky so I ended up getting an open-toe foot for it which makes a big difference.
I believe I paid in the neighborhood of $3,2oo for it a few years ago which was a special deal (and the max price I had set for myself).
Forgot to say that she does a great job with FMQ as well as piecing. One difference with other machines that took me a while to figure out: You don't set the stitch length to zero when the feed dogs are dropped. I set my stitch length to the normal quilting length and the stitches come out just fine.
Last edited by MadQuilter; 11-23-2016 at 06:22 PM.