I have an old embroidery machine and never used it for the embroidery part of it. Only thing I used it for was labels on the back of quilts. I could pay someone to make labels for me a lot cheaper. I thought I would use the embroidery for grandchildren but didn't. So , last year I brought the top of the line of a sewing machine without the embroidery feature. I could have afford an embroidery machine so price was not a factor. If you buy a machine with the embroidery feature, you will have to learn how to use the sewing features and the embroidery feature. That is a lot of learning curve.