My friend has the 'Gracie' stand w/a Janome machine. I believe she doesn't have more then 2,500 all together in it. She even quilts for others on it and it does great. This is a perfect size combo and am looking at it for myself too. Have heard that Janome is coming out w/many different machines this year (yea-like my wish list could get any longer!):0)Am anxious to see myself!:)) I agree that too many of these quilting machines are out of the reach of many quilters. I just recently looked at a gimmell that is supp. to be for the home quilter-it was still starting around $8,000. There's much fabric to me in that amount:0)Keep us posted on what you find out there-Skeat