All of the above are great input. When you have narrowed it down take some of your own fabric to try the machine out--two pieces like you are making a block and if you want to quilt try it with 2 fabrics and a batting to see how that works. A lot of the stores use a stiffer piece of fabric that will indeed sew differently that your fabrics. Quilting and pieceing really are 2 different sewings. Hope you find your machine