Joanie, I am with you. I only machine quilt small stuff like wallhangings, children's quilts and Linus Quilts. Wrestling with anything larger ruins the whole experience for me. The part I hate most about making a bed size quilt is machine sewing on the binding before I finish it by hand. On queen or king size quilts I have to get my husband to help me by having him hold the sections of the quilt not yet under the machine and feed them to me. I sometimes have to set another table up behind my sewing table just to support the quilts when I am doing any kind of machine quilting.
I am just finishing up the quilting on a double bed size quilt that will be raffled off to aid our local Linus Chapter. It took me a little over a month to hand quilt and I was able to watch TV with my husband or carry on a conversation with him while I worked. Neither is possible while machine quilting.