Couple of days ago I posted about being ready to trade that sucker in on something else...............Well, took a freemotion class today, learned how to thread the machine and bunch of other things and I think I may really, really like this machine. So, if I turned anyone away - I apologize. The horizon is so much fun. Just was in a rush, had just taken the machine out of the box and thought or maybe just wasn't thinking and got very frustrated very fast. Don't buy a new machine and not take some time to read the manual and play with it for a little while before needing to be able to use it for a class the next day. LOL