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Old 09-11-2020, 07:50 AM
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Iceblossom
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Welcome to the forums.

I think you can get most of what you want, especially if you consider serviced trade-in machines, but I'm not sure if you can get them all. I think especially the combination of FMQ and Light Enough will be difficult, but some people can quilt a queen sized project on a featherweight -- I am not one of them! If you have the space and budget it can be desirable to have one machine for portability and one machine with a huge throat space that just stays home. And that's how the sewing machine collection grows!

I have a vintage machine (heavy) and a modern Bernina (huge and heavy). For portable machines, I've been getting Brothers. I'm on my second now, first one survived about 7 years of heavy use and traveling. They might be slightly over your price point but I think you will get recommendations to look at the Sparrow by Eversewn.
https://www.eversewn.com/
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