Considering a new sewing machine/ recommendations appreciated.

[fierywoman]

2. My favorite machine is a Singer portable, which my mother gave me to use

at the end of the 1950s when I was 8 and sewing Barbie doll clothes, which had belonged to her mother and had been bought 2nd hand -- it's very old -- forward and backward stitches, that's it.

I had a Brother in the 80s -- it failed (wasn't so old).

Don't get a machine with all the embroidery stuff -- too much to break down.

Now I have a Husquevarna, which I like, but still prefer the tiny Singer...