I'm yet another one with a Brother CS6000i. It's a pretty good machine for everything but large quilts. It's REALLY light, which is nice sometimes but when I quilt it tends to scootch away from me - put a rubber pad (shelf liner style) underneath to fix that if you get one! I mostly use my new Janome now, but whenever I have a guest come over to work on stuff or take a machine somewhere I grab my Brother. So far zero problems with it, even using cheap thread. Probably won't last forever, but didn't cost much either.