BkinCO let us know how you go with your new janome..that is a machine that i have been thinking of getting and so many people seem to have. Let us know what features you love and what you hate as I bought my last machine and didnt do enough research either and got talked into getting something that if I had known more about I wouldnt have bought. I still love my machine but there are features that I would love to have and my machine doesnt have.