Like many things today, it seems that the range of options and features is almost overwhelming. My Singer that I purchased earlier does most of the basics, but has none of the options or attachments. Now that I have enjoyed learning I would like to move up, but then comes the question of "to what?". I certainly don't need five to seven hundred kinds of stitches and am more than a little skeptical of too much being done electronically or by computerization. Can't even conceive of why I would ever need to hook it up to the network. What I really want is reliability. simplicity and the ability to work with several layers of the heavier fabrics. The attachments/abilities of reliable button holeing, invisible seams, and such would seem to be valuable. SO, is there a common sense approach to graduate from my first machine to something a bit more flexible? What should one really expect to pay for such as this?