DDDDDDDDDH gave me the OK to go and purchase the new Janome 6600 today at my LQS - namely Sunshine Sewing. It is sooo cool. I no longer have to use a foot pedal since there is a stop and start button. You can also cut your thread by pressing a button giving you a tail of about 3" and, get this, when you start sewing again you don't pull your tail back through your needle! There is a zillion things I need to learn. All lessons are free forever, and the machine has a 25 year warrantee.
Now, my old Sears gets relegated to a DSD or DDIL. They may not want it since they don't live around me to give them lessons. ~sigh~ Wish that wasn't true, but it is.
~~~~~ Still happy dancing around ~~~~~~~~