Originally Posted by
Onebyone
I like to buy the inexpensive machines with decorative stitches I like and sew the devil out of them. If they conk out after a couple of years I don't fret over it. The Brother 420 has lasted over five years so far so the machine has cost me $50 a year and will only get less each year. I don't baby it and try all types of threads and techniques with it.
That's probably what I'll end up doing. The stitch that I thought was a serpentine stitch on the Janome, wasn't. It seems that the only Janomes that have that stitch are more than I'm prepared to pay right now. The Brother that I posted a link to seems to get decent reviews and I found several places where I could buy it for less than on Amazon.
I looked at a few different models, but many of them are sold out - for making masks, I imagine.