Id look into a used machine. You can get an older better machine for that money. I bought a machine with the label. making in mind and spent several hundred dollars more for that feature and it doesn't make anything I'd put on a quilt. You can maybe do a letter or two but then something always goes wrong. I took the classed when I bought it and it will do some nice fancy stitches but the lettering is not good at all. The only time I've used it was to put names on the hanging fabric of Christmas stockings. My machine was over $1,000. so to me that was not a cheap machine.