I have 2 Viking machines, my newest is the Sapphire which I use for everything, the other is Viking 500 which I gave to my daughter and it still is at my house, I inherited my mother's Bernina (all metal I think-it weighs a ton!), then I bought the Brother SE 400 for embroidery work. I didn't want an expensive machine to try out embroidery work and this works fine for me. I also have Bernina serger and my mother's White serger.