I bought this for Christmas for myself. I haven't been on it much as I was having trouble figuring out how to thread the darn thing and got frustrated and haven't been back on it. From the time I was in 3rd grade (73 now), all I ever owned was a Singer. About 5 years ago and friend gave me a White machine and it threads like this singer and I hated it. So I plan on getting back to it this coming week and try and figure it out.
This machine, though it has lots of bells and whistles isn’t necessarily user friendly. I broke 6 needles just trying to see how the fabric moved while sewing. It turns out that you just hold the material and the machine moves it forward under the presser foot but that isn’t written anywhere. Also the manual is 100 pages. Really?! The price of the machine was great but I’m not a fan just yet. Maybe with time and a lot of practice.