About Machines:
This tip is good if your thinking of investing in another machine. I personally have a Denim Pro & Audry for small machines I use for piecing. I have Ellegante II, embroidery machine usually humming along beside me, but it's my only machine that drops feed dogs, so I quilt on it too. All 3 are Baby Lock. Research, ask others personally don't rely on company printed statements from "customers". I did this, and found many who had Pfaff, Bernina & Baby Lock, said the BL was more user friendly. Then I did a consumer report, to find that BL I got more feet & hoops for about $5000 less than the other two brands with comparable same machines. Now I've never heard of "Juke" until this class, and this is what the Natl. Teacher said, which makes sense, I've been to classes watching other sm. machine vibrate/bounce so much it shakes the whole table for other quilters working too.
""Juke" is a work horse of a tiny machine, low cost, make sure feed dogs can
drop, or if your using your Juke only for domestic machine quilting, have the
feed dogs disengaged. Most small machines are not heavy enough, and they
bounce, and often we complain about the tables in classes or our guild location.
But a heavier machine will not bounce on any table." from Sharon Shambers class