I bought this machine last March and I'm very happy with it.......it's a user friendly machine and the only issue I have with it is it really likes good thread and new needles...........when I started using a new needle with every new project and bought good quality thread it worked fine. I used the Accufeed on some decorative stitches when quilting and it worked pretty well as long as the stitch didn't have a lot of backward and forward pattern...........I was able to do some nice decorative stitch in the ditch patterns with it.........................the book says you should only use 3 or 4 different of the decorative stitches because of the accufeed..........................One other thing the manual doesn't tell you is you should remove the needle plate and put a small drop of sewing machine oil on the wick.......I had the dealer show me how to do it.....................