Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I bought the SE400 about 2 months ago from Amazon... I knew nothing about embroidery machines before my purches, so I was going by the good reviews & the price. I haven't been disappointed. I've done quite a few projects with this machine, and it has done exactly what I had purchased it for. I've done lots of personalizing things with names- pillowcases, flour sack towels, quilt labels. Pros: 1. Price. This is the lowest priced embroidery machine that I've found, with the features that I wanted. 2. USB port. You can easily embroider designs (quite a few of them are free) from the internet. Easy to connect to your laptop & downlaod a design. 3. Fonts. There are 5 nice pre-installed fonts that come with the machine. They all work well, and are easy to use. 4. Ease of use. I had the machine out of the box, and was embroidering on a scrap piece of fabric within an hour after I opened the box. The touch screen makes it a snap to navigate the menu & find what you want. 5. Needle threader. I LOVE this feature. It works like a snap. You just thread the machine, and then push down on a little tab on the size, and viola! the needle is threaded. Easy as pie & has worked every time. 6. Thread cutter. This is also a great feature- it just cuts your thread for you when your design is finished. You can also set it to cut the thread between each letter, if your'e doing fonts. Cons: 1. The designs that come pre-installed on the machine are not that great. But, never fear, the internet is filled with thousands and thousands of designs, and quite a few of them are free. Most pattern sites offer some free designs, and you can really start quite a collection just getting started with free designs. Out of the 70 designs pre-installed, maybe 10 of them are pretty good. The others are a little out-dated & old fashioned. 2. Internal memory. You can only save 10 patterns on the memory of the embroidery machine. So, I just save all my designs on my laptop, and then use the USB cable to connect to the machine. Only takes a few seconds to download the pattern I want to use & I'm on my way. I wish they'd let you delete some of the not-so-great pre-installed designs & make room to save ones that you really want. But, if you have a laptop, or a PC close by, it's not a big deal to just connect to your computer, and get sewing. 3. hoop size. You are limited to the 4x4 hoop size. All in all, this is a great machine for the price. You can rotate designs, and resize them by a limited amount. It's easy to get started, and easy to thread. The touch screen is a nice feature, as is the needle threader (I wish my other sewing machine had this feature!). If you're looking for an inexpensive machine to get into embroidery with, this is your machine.