I got the Brother 1034D and so far am happy with it. The dealer offered a class and I learned how to rethread it which isn't as scary as it sounded. But, with what I sew, I keep neutral thread in it and very rarely have to change it. It is in the $200 range. The thing it doesn't do is overlock, like Holice said, so I can't hem anything with it. But that wasn't my desire anyway.