Congratulations on your new machine! Have fun with it!! Will be watching for your projects. :-)

How wonderful! I am so happy for you! I wish you many hours or joy sewing on your Elna! They are good machines!

I understand your excitement and wanting to share it. Congratulations and enjoy the heck out of it!!

Oh my yes! Your family might be perplexed by your excitement but I'm not! When I bought my first "big" machine, I ordered it during a quilt show and had to wait a week to pick it up - the dealer opens the boxes and tests and adjusts the machines before they're handed over so I had to wait to get mine. The Saturday morning that I was going to pick up my machine...I couldn't sleep the night before! I was like a kid on Christmas Eve, tossing and turning, mind going 100 miles an hour with all these ideas and plans... I had a 9:30 appointment to be trained and get my new machine, and I was up by 5AM, trying to shoo the hands on the clock to make them go faster, LOL. It's been a little over 2 years now and I still love that machine! I pet it when nobody is looking. ;-)

It was cute, another lady ordered the same machine from the dealer at the same time I did. When we realized we were buying the same machine we had this weird spontaneous happy-hugging-hopping celebration dance moment right there in the vendor's booth, we were both just so excited! That's the power of a new sewing machine - it can make perfect strangers grab each other and literally jump for joy! Everybody around us was laughing...they all "got it" too, of course!

I've never used an Elna but I hear good things about them - I hope you and your new machine have many years of happy sewing ahead of you!

Congrats!! I have an older Quilters Dream 6003 (?) that I have loaned out to my Mom. Your new Quilters dream looks a lot like my Janome 6600 that I use all the time.

I understand! Happy new machine and amazing they will do 6 hours of class time on a trade in. happy quilting!

Congratulations! I am always so happy for anyone when they get something new be it a car, a house, property, or a boat but the most excited I am is when someone so deserving gets a new sewing machine! Been there & lived that joy, screaming at the top of my lungs "I got my dream machine"!! Happy dance for you & yours!!
Jeri

WOOHOO!!!! I know how excited you are, I wish you lots of days of happy sewing on your new machine..Will be looking for some of your posts on what you have made...Enjoy!