I have a Brother. When I bought it, I wasn’t sure how much I’d use it so I could not justify the price difference for a Janome I got to demo. That year, I made blankets for all the neices and nephews and it came in very handy. It takes me forever to figure out how to thread it.
Sadly, it’s been in storage for over a year. Just no room for both it and the sewing machine since we moved. I really missed it when I made bookoos of burp rags this past Dec/Jan.