I have a Singer Futura 250, it does embroidery and I do piecing on it but the throat is not that big. I recently bought a Flynn Quilting Frame and set it up and was able to quilt using that I haven't done anything big on it yet...I believe that Singer made some improvements on the Futura line there is a 350 version. They run under a $1000.00. The upside is that you hook up your sewing machine to your computer for the embroidery functions, i.e. there's no mother board in your sewing machine to go out. I have been pleased with it, I got it as an early Christmas present last year and made all kinds of things for Christmas.