Judging by your redwork I'm sure your quilting will be wonderful and you will get more satisfaction doing the whole quilting process yourself. I know I would. As far as inconsistencies of having a group quilt your quilt, let me just say our group (15) all different levels of hand quilting abilities on our quilts (me being one of the poorest) but somehow is all looks great inspite of or maybe because of the inconsistencies.