Cari-in-Oly

The SE400 is a good little machine. I have a friend who has one and he likes it. He says it embroiders well too for an inexpensive machine.

Cari

materialgrl

Thanks Cari, I wish I could afford one that does a 5x7, but for now this is the one, maybe some day I can upgrade

Stitchnripper

congrats! I love my Brother machines.

mea12

One-by-One, the 6000 does not have an automatic thread-cutter. It does have a thread-cutter on the side.

MCH

Extended warranties are a sales / marketing ploy. In most cases, the cost of the warranty is split between the salesman and the store. The only extended warranty we've bought has been when we've bought a new car. That has worked for us as my husband and I tend to drive our cars until the wheels fall off and the engine dies. We don't trade cars too frequently.

madamekelly

you can alieviate some of that vibration from putting the machine on a coup,e old mouse pads. Sound and vibration deaened.

Onebyone

I bought a machine vibration pad from Janome. It works great at class where all the tables are usually the fold out ones. I try too keep the machine at the end over the table leg where it is more stable. That helps a lot too.
No luck finding a machine with auto cutter in time to take to retreat Friday but I remembered my Brother 1500 has this feature. I can take that but it is a bigger machine then I usually take traveling.