I have a Janome 8077 that I bought through Amazon.com. It is a $450 machine that was on sale for $250 at the time about 6 months ago. I absolutely love this machine. It doesn't have all the fancy embroidery things but does have 30 special stitches, needle up/down button, and a button to make it stitch about 4 times in the same spot that I use at the beginning and end of each quilting/sewing row - very convenient. I lowered the feed dogs and put the free motion quilt piece on it and it does a great job for stippling, SID and whatever I want to do with it. Generally, though, I just use the regular foot for the SID and any other straight line quilting. This machine is fabulous. Very user friendly in every way.