I love mine even though I'm still learning and lucky to have a store to call for support too. I used it to cut contruction paper jackolanterns for Halloween from the designs stored on machine, over 800 stored on it. I'm now using it to cut felt for the applique footballs going on a projects and the alphabets for names on same project. The scanning feature is one of the best thing about it because not only can you scan designs in; you can scan your fabric in and then put the design exactly on the fabric where you want it for fussy cutting. It will even draw your designs out for you and for the many, many built in quilt blocks, you can have it draw the 1/4 in sewing allowance (or you can make it different) and you can resize the blocks to what you need; even HST. Like I said, I'm still learning and sometimes I get frustrating as in alot of things but I keep on trying and call one of the stores here when I need help with something. Oh, you can use this with scrap booking too with lots of built in frames for photos, you can sign your name and it'll cut it out so no more looking and buying those special phrases for special things when you need it. It will cut most things like balsa wood, leather, I ordered it before it was released and they were able to release it early. There are youtubes on it plus videos on Brother's website to show you more