I have the Brother Disney machine and if you are looking for a good machine for embroidery as well as sewing or you can use it for embroidery only, my advice is but the Singer Futura you see I had my brother for a less than 6 months and was machine embroidering designs and names on fleece blankets and the Brother broke and of course with it being December there was no way that I was getting the machine back in time to complete the project so I went back to the Singer and finished 11 blankets and had them for the children on Christmas eve and the Singer is a real work horse. I love it! The price is right in your budget. The hoop size is 5X 7 so you can do quite a few designs with it.