My sister brought the machine over today but the book turned out to not be in her case, as she expected, so I still don't know how some thing work. How does the walking foot work? Nothing was moving except the lower teeth part( I don't know what to call that) IT seems to be a nice machine though. runs real smoothly and has a good feel about it. I have never used this nice of a machine before, except when I was working on a commercial machine for a short time. I think we will buy it from her. My wife thought it would be more machine than we needed, but we have owned two machines of much lower price and neither sewed well at all. Gale has an art quilting project in mind for the house and thought she could do the design work and pick the fabrics and I could cut and sew the piece. Sounds like fun, I thought. IT could play to both our strengths.