Hi Joan, I have a Singer Futura sewing/embroidery machine. I only used it for embroidery untill my other Singer went to the shop for a week. So I pieced some of my blocks on the Futura while I was waiting. I absolutely love it . It has needle up/down option and with my other I had trouble feeding strips in when chain piecing, not the emb. mach. it just took them so smoothly I could hardly make myself quit! It does have a lot of fancy stitches that I may never use but some times it's fun to use some of them for some top stitching.
Then a friend recently cohersed me into buying a basic White. Nothing fancy but seems to be a good machine and for 75.00 not a big investment if we're wrong about it.