I got a Bernina 185 for Christmas in 2005. I just took lessons to use it last year....I was so intimidated by it that I thought of selling it and buying a machine that was user friendly...A member of this board told me to go take lessons from a Bernina dealer.....Yup...it was me and not the machine...What a treasure the machine turned out to be....Glad I did not sell it....It is a wonderful machine....Go get lessons..You won't regret it....