I wore out my Viking Rose but had many years of good quilting out of it. Now I have an Elna Excellence 920 and it "feels" just as good. It allows me to do more than quilt - has decorative stitches that I use occasionally. It all really depends on what you want in a machine (I do have an older Viking 100 still going strong but not for quilting) and if it's going to be your primary or only machine or one in a "fleet."