My Dream Sewing Machine's Features: An Automatic needle threader and a one step buttonhole. Or the lightest, cheapest sewing machine.
It's the singer 3232. Automatic needle threader and one step buttonhole. I saw a similar one by Brother in Popular book store. The price was reduced for Chinese New Year. My husband said I could have it for my birthday in March. Two things were wrong with this idea. Firstly, by March the price had gone back up to double the special Chinese New Year offer. Secondly, my husband had gone off the idea of buying me another sewing machine! I should have just ordered it myself. Then I found this small, cheap machine by Singer. Small machine, but no buttonholer and no self threading. Smallest lightest machine with no cord, runs on batteries. Read the reviews on Amazon. It is not the lightest if you are holding it up to repair the top of a curtain. But smaller if you are travelling to a sewing class or group. You need to order the 6 volt power device, because batteries apparently last only about half an hour. If you don't mind a four step buttonhole, you can buy a machine...