I do too MinnieKat. I have an old Pfaff 1222E and its my favorite for piecing quilt blocks. All the layers feed evenly and all my quilt blocks come out right.
I have a fancy Viking 875 Sapphire with all the bells and whistles, its the one I use for machine quilting.(10"throat).

I have a Brother Innovis 1200 and I love the fact that I have a needle threader, automatic tie off and it cuts the thread at the end as well.

Elle

needle threader that really works and the cut at a touch of a button are my favs getting hard to thread needle late at night

Needle up-needle down and "hands free" are my 2 favorites.

Oh yeah, I also love my needle up/down feature. It's perfect for keeping your pieces in place when turning corners or making any adjustments and you don't want to loose your place. Great feature!!!

I have been spoiled to the automatic cutting and tie-off on the back on my little cheap Brother 270D that I bought about 5 years ago. It is my travel machine and I would like to upgrade it to a better quality machine with the above features. Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, I'm not wanting to spend a lot on my travel upgrade as I have a nice Janome 4900QC at home.

Is yours the 6000i that is advertised on Walmart & Amazon's web site? I found it for $147 yesterday.

The 2 most importand features on a sewing machine are:
1. Needle up/needle down
2. Ability to move needle position to right or left in very tiny increments. This way you can get that perfect 1/4" seam or the scant 1/4" seam easily.

Anything else is second to these 2.

Lady Diana

I drag my 6600P to workshops as I am so spoiled that even my original baby, the Janome Memory Craft 3000, doesn't work as well! Since I am a firm believer that you should use only 1 machine on a project from start to finish, I lug the 6600P around.

Hey, Friends

Several of you have been mentioning the needle threader feature on your machine. I can't make mine work worth beans. I have a serger threader designed for threading the loopers on a serger, but it works GREAT on threading a regular machine needle. I insert it inthe eye of the needed from the BACK. I put the thread in the loop and pull it to the back. Amazing.