I am on a small Caribbean island - read no machine type support - and teach young people to sew and more importantly quilt. I have bough the Brother Project Runway refurbished machines for them to use. They work beautifully and many quilts have been made on them. I bought them from Amazon.com for about $120 with free shipping to our US drop location so reasonable if you are in the US. For myself I can't beat a Janome or Kenmore (made by Janome).