I have an old singer , shuttle bobbin, sews forward only , dome top cover, I will not part with it , I also have a new 830 bernina and yes it did cost $10,000.00 I have made shopping bags,purses, a kingsize quilt pieced and quilted it ,did some embroidery on a quilt bag also does beautifullace, the space under the arm is huge I did not have a hard time quilting ths large quilt, it will do much more than I have already done on it , only had it for several months now, I am highly impressed with this machine , it has a lot of feature s that are good when you are 75 and getting arthiritis in my fingers :thumbup: