I also want to finish my quilt completely. It's expensive to have someone else quilt it and I feel somewhat cheated by not doing it myself. I don't really want to buy a LA myself. So the alternate is "rent" a LA and do the quilting myself. It's certainly not as fancy but I don't like heavily quilted items anyway. Have read many horror stories and don't want to experience that! When I do the work, I am responsible for the work and can do whatever I want.