Okay, I have been playing around for a couple of hours and so far so good. The worse part was threading the bobbin. The instruction manual came on a CD rom and my computer won't read my CD drive for some reason, it thinks the drive is gone. So I had to figure it out on my own. I can free motion now! It's not perfect but at least I can do it. I tried and tried on my old machine and only got bird nests. Tonight was just play around and experiment with stitches. Tomorrow I will sew for real as I have borders to put on a lap quilt that I'm making for Christmas.