If your main purpose is quilting spend less and go Vintage for now. I just bought a Singer 301 for $300. The stitches it makes are better than the mid priced newer machines. It also came with an automatic zigzagger should you need that. But for chain piecing vintage machines are great. You can go slightly newer vintage and get some with reverse. I've sold one 4 year old Viking and will be selling another when I fiinsh a project because I like the vintage machines so well. And they are simple enough you can work on them yourself with help from the vintage section of the board.