I did use my old Kenmore!! I am the Kenmore Gal after all! I used my avatar, it's my main machine. I have a kissing cousin to that machine for FMQ.

Awe, the tote came out beautiful! I'm a Kenmore gal too, have my moms old one, made sometime in the mid sixties I think, still in original cabinet. Miriam is right, they will sew through anything, I always say I think mine would sew through a bed of nails! LOL!