I don't think I'd try to do free-motion quilting without a LOT of practice on something smaller first. Having said that, I've quilted almost all my own quilts on my home machine, but none of them were queen size. On all of them, I used my walking foot, and just did shadow quilting inside each piece of the patches. This was something I could keep better control of while doing it. Of course, the walking foot doesn't do anything but straight quilting - you couldn't do FMQ with it. It does make a HUGE difference in keeping the sandwiched fabrics from shifting while you quilt. I'm no pro, that's for sure, but that's my experience.