I have it and love it. It does have a learning curve, but makes such perfect stitches. If you like very detailed work, it's very worthwhile. I can do 14+ stitches to the inch perfectly in a lovely little stipple. I want to work on micro stippling next and start around 18 or more stitches to the inch. There is a sweet sixteen yahoo group where the machine and TruStitch is discussed in depth. It's called the HQ_Sit_down_Model.