I've always done all of my own quilting. I must admit that my most favorite part is piecing the blocks, but once I start quilting I really get into it. I do lots of free motion quilting too, very seldom do I mark the quilt first. I have a Janome 6500, I love it dearly, especially since I bought a quilters dream table, it made such a difference in the ease of quilting a large quilt. I've quilted king sized without any problems.