My go to machine has always been my Singer 401A I bought in 1958. Love that machine. I wanted some more stitches that it does not have so I bought the Brother project Runway cheap at Wal Mart. I loved it and when my DD said she wanted a machine I gave it to her. I went to get me another one and they had come out with the Brother SQ9000 with all the quilting goodies with it so I bought that one and it is a great machine. I turn to it more and more for all my sewing. I think I payed $ 169.00 for It and I have already got my money's worth out of it and it is still going great. My DDIL is still sewing on a cheap little Brother she bought when she we in High school in the 70's and she would not give it up for anything.