Have you thought about local churches, I know alot of the churches around here have ladies that will quilt your quilt for you. Usually a waiting list but its cheaper than a longarm service, and your tops are just laying waiting anyway, you could get on the waiting list. Our local quilt shop has longarm services but they are very high priced. If a quilt shope doesnt have a longarm service they usually can tell you who in the area does longarm. Joanns and hancocks also has a bullentin board at the front of the store where people post quilting services. I've seen longarmers here on this site that do beautiful work, very reasonable compared to what we have locally. I personally have never sent mine out, but I have inquired because I have some quilts that I want to be better than what I can do. You could also tie your quilts instead of quilting, thats what my grannie used to do.