I know that people who do not sew a lot or quilt would choke at the price of the machine. But to those of us who do, what a great buy. I know that you will enjoy it very much. My very first machine was a singer and it had a lot of cams for design stitching that I hardly ever used. I basically was happy that it went backwards and forwards and did a zig zag stitch. But I took a quilt class and they had machines there for us to use.....Bernina's. I fell in love but it took be a good 25 years to be able to afford to buy one oh yeah I bought two. LOL. I do have one that embroiders which I have never used. lol. But as far as taking my machines to class.......I don't like to do that. These machines have computer components and I am afraid of the moving around, toting it back and forth,riding in the car, etc, will harm that. I go to class, take notes and then come home and try it. I love my Bernina.