-It was easy to set up the machine using the booklet instructions and a video tutorial on youtube
-It has a workpiece light when you turn it on
-You control it by pressing on a pedal. I use my right hand.
-The "piercing power" of the machine is linked to the sewing speed: You can only get high power and high speed together by pressing hard on the pedal. I don't really like this since the max speed feels too fast for me, and pressing lightly doesn't give enough power to go through 4 layers of polycotton.
-You can manually turn the wheel to sew at your own pace! I use this for the upper half of the dress in the image (it's 10 cm / 4 in in length). It's also good when trying to carefully sew through 8 layers of fabric, and probably good for the needle too. It's slightly less boring than hand sewing and the stitches are more consistent.
-The smallest width the presser foot appears to work with is around 5 mm / 0.25 in. I still need to hand sew if the fabric pieces are narrower than that.
-I've only used the straight stitch setting so far.

I've completed the blouse part of the dress, and starting on the skirt part soon. Still have no idea what's going on with the sleeves, but looks good so far. =)

Does anyone have ideas on how to finish raw seam edges? I was thinking of using double folded bias strips. =3