Yesterday I took the plunge and bought a Singer Futura Quartet at Hancock Fabrics (it was on sale). So far I have stitched out two embroidery designs. One was the sample that came with it, the other was a cross-stitch design I had on my laptop.
My only peeve with this machine is that it does not have an automatic thread trimmer. I've also learned that to prevent false thread breakage errors I have to use the stretchy spool cover to keep the thread from coming unwound from the spool to quickly, causing looping.