I bought a Brother CS-6000i from Walmart for about $180. I sewed nearly 100 jeans quilts, 5 costumes, 3 crazy quilt blocks and turned them into throws for gifts plus basic cotton quilt blocks turned into charity quilts, on this machine. It has never disappointed me. It pieces, quilts and does fancy stitches. If the machine "dies" local service people will not touch it, however. I found a sewing machine repair place where I was told "Bring it in. The estimate is free." After a basic cleaning and tune up, it is back to sewing like it was new. When I thought the machine was "dead", and before I was able to get it serviced, I bought another identical machine, so now I have a "backup". I take the machine in for yearly service, just to keep it running as smoothly as possible.