This is what happened to me. I brought the machine Saturday, unpacked it and put it on a small table in my sewing room... from Sat to Wed I stared at it without even turning it on... one day I spoke with my sis and she asked me about my new machine and I told her I was kind of frozen and wouldn't sew... well, Thursday turned it on and try straight stitch, cut thread, simple stuff. Saturday I went back to the dealer to take a class and we embroider a poinsettia that came with the machine. After that, back home, I just play on a piece of fabric some of the decorative stitches. Today I am trying to install the software in my compu so I can look for some Christmas designs for towells I wanted to make. Frustrated now because I don't get o make the software to work.
Overall I am sure I have a great machine but for sure I have to spend hours on it to learned it.