I also bought the Brother 6000i to teach my 11 year old grand daughter and I love the machine. I made several things on it so that I could teach her to use it and she made her first quilt on it. It is a great machine. It's going to live at my house and will be my back-up machine. I ordered it on-line from Walmart and had it delivered to my house because they didn't carry it in the store. I recommend this machine to a beginner or experienced sewer.