When I bought mine I wasn't a quilter per sey. I bought it for the embroidery and made my decision because I didn't want to go to the higher price Bernina that ran it's own software. The 440 runs the embroidery software off my laptop so that sold me. Now I do mostly quilting an some embroidery. I love to do free motion quilting on it. I love love love my Bernina. and it is the first Bernina I've owned!