Hi, Bea again. The 9960 Singer is not a big Quilting machine and it has a 10" throat. I am a newbe at quilting myself. You don't need a frame with my machine. I wouldn't know what to do with it anyway. I just know the wonderful things I have been able to do that I never could do before. I have been learning by making blocks for about 9 months. That taught me more than I can tell you. I made my first quilt ever and it was done on a really bad machine. I could not finish with machine quilting. So I had to hand knot it. It looked great. Not what I thought my first quilt would be but it really worked well. I am now working on #2. This one has 16 butterflies and I will be able to quilt this on my machine no problem. Just thought I would share from one new quilter to another. Good Luck, Psywillow :D