NYGAL--For you " even more important to me would be you can stop and come back to the machine another day and pick right up where you stopped the day before to finish your design!! " YOU CAN do this, if your machine has "forward" (and most have forward & reverse), or if you have the skip to next thread color. I would note the stitch number, cut the thread & turn off machine. Next day, turn on & select the same design--move FORWARD, or skip to thread color and forward to stitch count number, and continue to stitch out. Try a sample to get the ''hang of it''. Took me a while to catch on to this because I don't read manuals very well--I tend to jump into the fray, as the saying goes! I hope you are successful.