After replacing my first sewing machine, which I had for 34 years, I do not lend out my new one. I took me 6 months to learn all the bells and whisles on it. I would not think a novis sewer would know what to do with it. Besides, I like to sew when I want to sew and if I lent it out, I could not sew at all. (I have let my Granddaughter learn how to sew on it but I am over her like a buzzard.)