Hi Ali,

Welcome to the forum!

I have no advice for your next purchase, but I will give you some advice that was given to me when I was replacing my 25+ year old Kenmore. KEEP that workhorse as your backup machine. Yep, that is a good machine and while it isn't feeling well at the moment, when you have the extra funds, take it in for a check up. I am so glad I did. It will sew through anything and I know it so well. And it is the machine that I will look inside and play with it. I have learned a lot about the inner working of sewing machines because I am not afraid of breaking it -after all, I have my regular machine, if I kill my Kenmore, no biggie.