I have three sewing machines and they aren't a bit cranky about thread. Reading posts from people about how you have to have a certain kind of thread because your machine, your needle, etc., won't do the job has made me very hesitant to think about a new machine. I recently found several spools of thread that are almost certainly forty or more years old, threaded my Janome and used every inch of that thread without a hitch. Most of it was Coats and Clark and two or three spools were American Crafter that was on sale somewhere during the Medieval period. I can't handle termperamental people. I certainly couldn't handle a temperamental machine! froggyintexas