Michael, I was looking at your blog, and I was looking at your friends new machine (nice), and you mentioned you wanted a machine with a stitch cutter. Might I also suggest a bigger neck area. I just bought a new Pfaff Expressions 4.0, and it has the larger neck. I am looking forward to doing some machine quilting on it when I get my hand out of this darn cast. I had thumb joint replacement 5 weeks ago. Can't even use the new machine. Darn!!!