I was going to buy the Singer Patchwork sewing machine last Christmas at Joann's, but after researching it thoroughly I found out it didn't have drop down feed dogs. Which I wanted to learn Free Motion Quilting. So, I went with the Singer Confidence 7469. Which I loved the features on. Unfortunately, that machine had problems from the get go and I never returned it to the store. So was stuck with a lemon, in my opinion. I went and bought a Janome DC5100, which was a great little machine and figured out quickly I needed a bigger throat to do quilting. This fall I went and bought the Janome 6600 with a 9 inch throat, love it. I finally found a Singer dealer that worked on Singer sewing machines and took the Singer 7469 to him to check out and he fixed it and it runs better than it ever did. In my opinion, buy from a dealer that sells Singer sewing machines. They will check out the machine
before you take it home.

Phyllis