Caroline, Thanks for your reply. I am pretty much thinking like you. I love my old Pfaff 7550 and will use that for piecing. I used it to create two 8 foot x 8 foot all silk quilts that toured in Europe for three years. I do mostly contemporary quilts on a large scale and really need to learn to do my own quilting.So I am leaning towards a quilting machine. It will be a few weeks before I go test drive them both. I plan to take sandwiches of all silk and try on both machines. I have done some FMQ so I am not starting from scratch. I love that every on this forum is so helpful. Happy Quilting! Barb