I grew up with Singer, its a name I trust. I am not a strong sewer and so am happy this is a fairly straightforward machine with simple operations and there are videos available to help explain it online. Wayfair has a notification feature to let you know when an out of stock item is back in stock and though it took till the third notification (as it sold out within an hour of restock each time) I finally got it ordered and Wayfair got it to me in just three days after ordering. Yay Wayfair.