I bought one and after years, I got a quilt teacher here to help me, then after more time went by I started, thread kept breaking. Had a re-pair man out, he couldn't get it to work, so took it home for over a week. Said it came that way from the factory, it wasn't me!! hooray!!! Worked fine, while he was here...then you guessed it, the next day...thread is breaking...clean the bobbin every time you change it, and oil it every day...so, I'll try again next week...but with Christman coming it may go on the back burner...