I also have that Laura Ashley Brother Innovis machine and absolutely LOVE it. I also do FMQ on it. It has a ton of features and I am currently on a mission to actually USE the features. They are discontinued, so I got mine at a good price. Besides having it professionally cleaned/serviced yearly, it is a very low-maintenance machine. It is not necessarily a portable machine, but I love it so much that I often bring it to sew-ins (my other machine does not have an auto threader or auto thread cutter or auto needle lifter.... or auto anything) LOL.