I chose this model because it was buttonholes all alone and I'm not disappointed. I am a beginner in sewing and before I used the old sewing machine given by my mother, a singer too. I cracked for this one, because it makes buttonholes all alone, so, and she does it well. But also because it offers many points. The automatic threading and the passage of son are simple. The storage box in the arm of the machine is convenient. Only downside in the end can or coil wire out sometimes passersby and the machine "fluff".