Congrats! I'm saving up my $$'s for a quilting machine. What a nice gift! My dealer gives free machine usage classes no matter where you may have purchased or how you received your machine and whether they sell that brand or model or not. Smart - gets new clients in the door and of course when you take a class they show you all the other notions and gadgets you just have to have! And like me, you see something bigger and better and end up trading up. So definitely check with a dealer near you and see if they offer free (or low cost) machine usage classes.