Originally Posted by kathymarie

I've just had my 830 for about 3 weeks and so far I really like it but haven't worked out all the details on settings. I bought it on ebay from a sewing machine dealer but it's used so there's no finding a local dealer to help me with all the bells and whistles. It's encouraging to see that some of you guys really like yours. Right after I got mine I started seeing bad reviews about them everywhere regarding thread issues, broken needles and nesting threads when fmq.