I love mine and have not regretted buying it just because now my quilts are completely finished by me! Both my husband and I quilt too so it was expensive to send them out. We do offer lessons and rent out time on our machine and this also means that we recoup a little of the cost of her but so much more importantly we meet other fabulous quilters when they use our LA and we have so much fun seeing their projects and seeing them complete their quilts.