I own the Janome Horizon and still don't know all the tricks. The part about reading the manual is VERY important. Nothing teaches liie practice. Before this machine I had and still have a Janome-New Home 6000 and just learned it by practice. One summer I made jockey silkes for Balmoral Park in Chicago and paid for it doing that. I didn't intend to, but they liked our silks so much and the saddle towels, that the park commissioned saddle towels for a Budwiser Stakes Race. You never know where opportunity will lead you. I haven't sewn for money since though. Start making flanel baby bibs and quilt them with some of the different stitches. They make good baby gifts and perhaps you can sell enough to pay for this expensive habit of ours. Pretty soon you will know your machine and "what not to do". I still go back to the old machine for certain stitches and effects, not on the new one. You just never know. Those little sleeveless shirts for infants, used with just a diaper for the summer are also good learning practice. One of the ladies in our guild makes table runners and uses a serpentine stitch to quilt them. That covers up a multitude of sins and still looks pretty. I am going to thry that next. No matter what you decide to do, just keep doing it.