I have the Janome 11000SE and it's really fun to work with. I did really cool huck towels with embroidered ornaments on them for Christmas gifties this year, plus I monogram my bags too. I haven't gotten into embroidering anything with like 20 colors or anything yet, but have enough embroidery files to embroider from the East coast to the West coast. I get lots of nice stuff from embroiderylibrary.com