Thanks everyone for the great ideas on machines. That is my "one of these day wishes" for a bigger throat machine. Right now with a DS in high school, it's all braces, drivers license, first car, then college. So you can see why thousands in a machine just isn't practical. I guess what sparked the desire was HSN in their sewing week. They were touting thes machines that were not at all what I would want to quilt on and saying how good they would be for quilting. Raspberryparade09, I have always wondered about that too! It seems like it would be so much easier just to buy two spools but, I guess they think it is more economical just to use one spool of thread. As if that is ever enough. LOL.