CMQUILTER

It depends on what you want to use it for. Do you want to embryoid on everything from hats to quilts? Do want to do smaller designs or very large designs? Do you want a very large hoop to create your own embroidered fabric? I read a post from a sewing repairman once and he said embroidery only machine embryoid the best. Don't know for sure myself. I bought the machine because I love to make quilts but hate to quilt them. So part of my plan was to use the embroidery function for quilting the quilt because I didn't have room for a long arm. Now I'm a snow bird and still don't have the room. I have seen people who buy the sewing embroidery machine and never sew anything, just embryoid. So the question is what do you want to do?

You don't need to purchase the top of the line machine for $9000.00 or more, maybe a lower priced machine would be great to start with. You can trade up to more machine or embroidery only machine. Check the dealers for their trade up/in policies.