I too am on trusty Elna that I inherited from my sister when she upgraded to a computerised model, and I’m ready to change. It’s a good little machine, but a disaster when it comes to my next frontier (or one of them), buttonholes. I did a workshop at Thread Den in North Melbourne, and they had some wonderful machiens that even sew on buttons automatically.
My mother bought a Janome during a spending spree last year and it’s still in thebox; she’s offered it, and my inertia has got in the way of using it. Things to do…