If you have only one machine a straight stitch machine with wide throat would do both things. I use my Brother 1500 for quilting. I could also piece on it but prefer my Featherweight or Janome. If I could only have one I would have to go with the Brother because you can't quiilt easily on small throat machine. I bought one secondhand a few years ago and it is perfect. The new machines that do everything including embroidery are great for some things but I find that you can not sew on them for hours as computers can overheat. They also do not make as nice a straight stitch. I haven't used a Juki but understand they do the samething as Brother 1500.