I am a HUGE proponent of having a serger....BUT..if you are only going to quilt, it would be a poor choice. The only caveat is if you are going to do some of the serger quilting that Sewing with Nancy is now showing. And you better make a lot of those to justify the machine. A serger is a necessity for me, but I do a lot more than quilt. One more thing...you need an easy to thread machine and that likely means a Babylock, which is not the cheapest machine on the market.