I'm hoping to buy the Janome 350E embroidery machine next month. The dealer will most likely be setting up a booth again at the Christmas at the Glacier craft fair and he may have better deals then rather than now. I have a business number and a friend of my Mum's gets her threads through Marathon Threads for a good deal. I am going to check out that website and see the prices. Otherwise I will look at eBay and start picking up my threads and stabilizers now so I'll be already when I get my new baby home.