Just for quilting? Brother pq1500s. Straight stitch only - mechanical, large throat. Nothing fussy. Just sews and sews - powerfully and simply. Complicated quilting with no balking, no thread breaking, excellent stitch. Knocked myself out trying to get my Viking Sapphire 875 to quilt consistently. Tried every thread in the book, every gadget. Sometimes it would, sometimes it just wouldn't. But this simple, very well built straight stitch machine quilts easily with every kind of thread I've tried and doesn't ask for fancy needles either. Of course you need something else for all the bells and whistle stuff. But if you want to quilt well and easily this is your machine. About 600 dollars. Don't have to take it in for servicing, can clean and oil easily myself. (P.S. I do not own stock in Brother. I am just so happy to be able to quilt well that I can't help myself.)