I have finally bought a brand new machine, Viking Sapphire 960Q. Love love love it! I have three older machines and this is the first new one I ever bought. Viking always has a good promotion going on and I got my machine for 4 years same as cash. For $59 a month I am one happy camper. There's a good sale going on right now. Anyway this machine has so many extras and I'm trying to use them all. Half the fun is learning to use all the neat stitches. Do I sound like I love Vikings? Yes I do, own 4 of them now and none have been problem machines. Just keep up the maintenance of cleaning out your machine every project and you won't have trouble.