I absolutely love my TL Juki but it is not my first or only machine. I use it almost exclusively for all my piecing and definitely all of my machine quilting but I also have a Husqvarna with lots of fancy stitches and a vintage Singer 201 set up with a buttonholer (I make a lot of bags and kid's stuff) as well as quilt. You might be better with the smaller all purpose machine to start with and then save for the larger machine for machine quilting.