My husband gave me my Christmas present early this year. I was needing to do some sewing before Christmas & I had messed up my Singer Simple machine & just wasn't in the mood to fool with it. Well, I have never had so much fun sewing in all my life. I started off making money bags for our business & with the double stitch feature I didn't have to go back and forth to reinforce the seams. I love the fact I don't have to use the foot pedal, I can just press start & stop and the ability to control the speed. I then stitched the name of each business on each bag. AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME.