Welcome from Louisiana. We have friends & family near Conroe & Port Arthur, so we visit Texas a lot. Good to have you here.
There will be a lot of recommendations about sewing machines. Some people on the board do it with embroidery machines, others with almost every other brand. Hope you get some good advice. If it were me, I would make up a quilt to go to test drive each machine. Don't make it too small, because you won't really get a good idea how it works. Think at least baby size, about 36 x 36-44.
I love my Brother, but it really doesn't like those 3 pieces very much. I end up doing a lot of tugging and pushing and it really makes my back sore. On the other hand, it will embroider quilt embroidery patterns on just about anything as long as I can keep the rest of the quilt from hanging up.