Love this machine !

This is a great sewing machine. For regular sewing, it has many built in stitches and sews beautifully. The machine embroidery feature is fantastic. You need to know how to operate a computer as the pattens run from your computer to the machine. One very nice thing about this is that there are many very good free designs on the Internet that you can download and sew. Some other machines require that you purchase additional cards to sew designs. If you are also very creative, you can digitize your own designs.... just takes a little computer knowledge and patience because there is a learning curve. To help you through any problems in learning there are awesome groups on Yahoo that can answer all of your questions.