I also hand piece and hand quilt. I'm beginning to branch out to include machine piecing and would like to learn machine quilting. I want to have the option of doing both. Lately I've had to make a lot of baby stuff that I would have liked to just run up on the machine rather than hand do. Don't have a machine that will do quilting easily. I only have a 1970s singer. It can piece on it but quilting is limited