I bought my Grandson a garage sale machine with a cabinet for $20. He learned to make fleece quilts 3 X-mas' ago for everyone in the family. Anyway, he tricked out his machine with 'rub ons' of skate boards and his favorite skate board dudes that do the awesome tricks. His machine truly is 'his', now. He was 12 when he learned to sew, and still, 3 years later still sews and fixes clothing and sews patches on his bowling quilt, too.