Hi Sharon, I also want a long arm but that will have to wait until after I retire which is a ways down the road. I love my new machine. I stayed up until 3 am just playing and I played on it alot yesterday. I'm going to order a 60 spool thread set off of ebay. Right now I only have three colors so I really haven't made anything just been trying all of the designs on scrap fabric. I can't wait until I get all of the colors so that I can actually start working on some projects. The only thing that I've made that I plan to actually use so far has been a quilt label for my latest quilt.