I have had a Babylock Audrey for over 3 years, and just love her! She is VERY light weight, and portable. I have used her to piece several quilts (up to twin size as the throat distance isn't huge) and have quilted several baby quilts on her. I did buy the separate walking foot for the quilting. Just took her in for her first cleaning and no problems at all. She has about 20 different decorative stitches, but I just mostly use the straight stitching anyway. Not familiar with the Grace.