Diana, with enough practice you CAN learn to quilt beautifully on your regular sewing machine. For example, a friend of mine quilts on her regular Bernina and does beautiful work. I think she's been quilting about 10 or 11 years. She put together a queen sized quilt from blocks done by her guild members and quilted it all on her regular machine. It turned out so nice that they urged her to enter in the AQS show in Paducah this year. She did, it was accepted to the show in the bed quilts: group catagory and it won 1st prize in that catagory! If you'd like to see it, here is the link:
http://www.americanquilter.com/shows...lt_winners.php