About Allure Plus: I picked it up Sunday...was a floor demo at our local county fair...I hope I got a good price...I thought so..anyway....I read some of the manual yesterday afternoon...I now have an old viking 1+, and a lot of the stitch stuff is about the same...It will be the embroidery part that will be so updated......will have to wrap my head around that slowly......having computer tech come over tomorrow to clean up my desktop before I attempt using it to download patterns(or whatever one does).....don't laugh!!!! I will be going to the shop for some lessons that come with the purchase (in town here), but probably not until next week.....in the meantime, I was going to try to sell my viking, but thinking about it, all the attachments, books, cards, I have invested into it-I would be giving it away and as long as it still works I guess I will use it too...what do you all think--would you get rid of old one or keep???????