I do not send my quilts out to be quilted, I personally feel that a quilt is not finished until you quilt it , some of mine are hand quilted and some are machine quilted, it is not easy to quilt a kingsize quilt by machine but like my fourth grade teacher used to tell me when I went to school in a one room schoolhouse in the sierra foothills many years ago, Don't say "can't "say "can't hardly" :thumbup: :XD: :thumbup: