Thank you all for your help...the stitches look ok, it's just that the black thread crossed the white in making the stitch. On the special stitches, I was seeing a lot of black. Maybe it's just me being too picky or like many said, the needle too big and I'm seeing the black thread through the hole...I used the needle that came with it...
I went to the authorized Brother dealer to try to test drive a machine to kind of see where they had the tension settings and what the stitch looked like (although I didn't tell them that!) and unless I planned on paying over a thousand dollars, I couldn't even demo it. I had asked to demo a lower end Brother. The Babylock Elizabeth was the cheapest he could show me with a price of $699 and not all the features that this Brother has... I hate sewing machine dealers! They rank right there with used car salesmen!
You all have restored my faith in the machine and I'm set to try again!
Last edited by SUZAG; 03-21-2012 at 05:01 AM.