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I need a group that I own and moderate resynced. The name of the group is paintbranchnet. Thanks for your help!

Hello! I currently have a very old (25+ years) Pfaff machine (given to me as a hand me down by my SIL when she got a new machine). I don't sew a lot - mostly mending and yearly masquerade costumes for my daughter - sometimes house stuff like pillows and simple decorative things. It is for the most part reliable, but it does seem to get out of tune regularly, and of course, in the middle of a time deadline project right now, it chooses to start skipping stitches big time. The estimates to repair it were coming in at over $100, and the time to do it at over a week, so I started thinking it might be worth it to just get a new machine.

I went online, and read comments, and it seems like a lot of the new machines are cheap plastic, and not sturdy, and not capable of handling heavy fabrics, which I sometimes deal with.

Lucky me, my friend hooked me up with a fellow who visits Hancock fabric stores and fixes machines on the spot, so I am hopeful this immediate issue will be resolved in time to get this current project done, but I am thinking long term.

I am wondering:

1) Are Pfaff machines tempermental?

2) Are there any good new machines that don't cost big bucks?

3) Am I better off sticking with what I have and just doing regular tuneups?

Thank you for any advice!

Did anyone else feel like crying at the end of Chuck last night, after Chuck saw Sarah kill the bad guy in apparent cold blood? I mean, she did not have a choice, she did it to protect him, but he does not know that, and it made me very sad.

I am having a problem with the latest version of Firefox. When I try to print out web based graphics, like for instance a Mapquest map, it prints out as just lines. Does anyone know why it is doing this, and how to fix it?

Thanks for any help!