If you really think you would use an embroidery machine check with you machine dealer for a trade in they might have for sale or look at the stand alone ones offered at Walmart etc. The software for those machines can run into big bucks. Another option might be to pay your local machine dealer to sew out any design you might want on their equipment. You might even have a friend who already has an embroidery machine with the designs or motif you want. I recently paid my local Bernina dealer to resize a design I needed so that it would fit my home embroidery machine. They have all of the computer equipment to do such a chore. The $25 I paid her for her time was a whole lot less than purchasing a newer more complicated machine to do just one project.