I have the baby lock Ellisimo , I love it, it is expensive to buy and it is very EZ to use, have some other friends that do a lot of embroidery also, they have various machines and we all exchange ideas on embroidery and quilting. If you have any questions you can always PM me. What ever machine you decide on, advise you to invest in an external hard to save your embroidery designs on, because before you know it you will have hundreds. You don't want them all on your computer in case you computer dies. There are a lot of sites that have free designs out there, if you PM me you email I can send you some great sites.