Roberta is it a 6690 or a 9960. I just got the 9960 and sounds like this one. I absolutely love it. Am trying to get my sister to get the same one so we can help each other if we need to. I just opened the book that came with it, and one page at a time, threaded it, tried everything. It's really easy, and so much fun to have a machine that does everything I need.