Here’s a pic of my friend Nadine and I at the BFQ Guild meeting last Friday evening:
What was especially funny about this? We were probably both thinking “The meeting is fun, but I can’t wait to go home and play with my new Bernina!” Each of us had just purchased the Bernina 440 (me that very day, her exactly three weeks before), but we had not had any time together to share the news when this picture was taken! Nadine stopped by the blog to read the latest the day after the meeting, and was so surprised to hear that I bought the Bernina, that she said, “as we say in German – had problems to close my mouth again…” 
Nadine took my machine quilting class a few years ago, and bought the Pfaff 2056 in December partly because I had it, and because of some of the features the machine had. She never fell in love with it for machine quilting, but I didn’t know it. So she made the decision to buy the Bernina 440, and she is now happy with both machines. I think I will be the same: using the Bernina for machine quilting, especially the free motion, and using the Pfaff for piecing and machine guided quilting since it has the IDT (or dual feed). I also bought the embroidery unit for the Bernina, to replace the Pfaff 2124 sewing/embroidery machine that I sold!
So, 2 Nadines + 2 Pfaff 2056 machines + 2 Bernina 440 machines = 2 great minds thinking alike!!
Go quilt! Your work gets better every day!
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[...] With the Bernina 440 however, it’s a sure thing, and you know me, I’m all about a sure thing. I don’t know whether this function is really considered a “feature,” but it’s value added for me either way. When my friend Nadine and I realized that we’d purchased the same machine within weeks of each other, we chatted a bit about it and she shared this feature with me. I think that the reason this works on the Bernina and not on the Pfaff is because the bobbin assembly functions completely differently, though I’ve not been able to confirm this with the dealer since he’s German and mein Deutsch ist nicht so gut, especially with technical jargon like this. [...]