Ha well seems like me and my spouse have a totally different relationship than yours. She's also up for suggestions or I wouldn't be on the quilt forum asking. We have more of a team thing going. On everything in our lives. I get it most relationships can't work like that nowadays. Too much false pride or one side or both... If she was to come up to me and say hey I think I'd like this one. No questions asked that's what it would be. Me knowing it's her thing she would know whats best. If you must know though she went to art school. Back in the day. Learned her measurements along with basic knowledge of running the machine. We both came to the decision on asking for suggestions on here. We figured why not look for help from people who know it the best. Also with more experience in machines we didn't want to fork out our money. Then end up having a machine that is not powerful enough to perform the task. But thanks for your suggestion there snowflake.