I have several Berninas and love them all. However if you are looking at this just for quilting your quilts, I would say look into Long Arms and Mid Arms to see what you can get for the same price. While this does have a larger throat plate it is not that big when you get your roller with the quilt under it. Every time you advance you will be losing more space. I am not sure if you can use the embroidery part on the quiltframe or if you have to have special software to do that. Just a thought