It depends on what your price range is and what kind of quilting you do, there are simple straight stitch machines like the brother 1500or juki 98 run about $600, but if you want fancy stitches but more high end I recommend the babylock symphony or brother laura ashley. I have the older model the espire, and have never been disappointed with the quality or how it handles. Me I always recommend the brothers, some people don't like them others love them, I have had my cheap ones for a long time, one I had for 13 years and gave away to my MIL, Have had my other one for 5 years , still runs great. Had my Espire for a year and a half , no problems with it ever. Also If you are sewing constantly not occasionaly, I recommend something more heavy duty and high end, some of the cheaper machines are not meant for heavy constant sewing, I just sew occasionally. If you want heavy duty it will cost you more. I see people complain about certain machines breaking down, but they are cheap in price to begin with so you can't expect for it to be heavy duty for that price, you have to be willing to spend the money for the higher end machines, look to spend over $500 for something that will last, and even then I have heard of some of those not working after 3-4 years with heavy use. One lady who sews a lot on hear said she purchased a new Janome Jem every 3 years and those run about $400. If you want something built with more metal parts look to spend in the thousands unless your buying vintage many machines have a lot of plastic now, but I suspect that is to make them more lightweight and portable than the all metal machines which can be rather heavy