Hi and welcome! I have never figured out how to introduce myself on this page so I just jumped in talking to people. My husband just bought me a Janome 7700 for christmas. I love it!! It does single line embroidery but not the fill in projects and definitely does not download patterns. There was a more expensive one that did. A good idea is to find out what dealers you have around you and then go look at all of them. Read about them on the internet. I drug my husband with me and we bought the middle price sewing machine. I just felt like anything more expensive than a Janome 7700, was equal to a car purchase.