Hi and welcome from NY. I'm with you - I find the quilting to be very tedious and I don't enjoy it at all. Used to be I was ashamed to admit that, but now I don't care. I like to piece, so that's what I do and I send the tops out to be quilted. I don't really have much spare time, so why spend it doing something I don't like? I do, however, quilt the charity quilts. They're usually smaller so they go faster, and it would be way to expensive to have them professionally done.