No you are not alone No long arm machine at my house .. nor is there any intention to have one. But I will say for big quilts I send them to a Long Arm pro ... its the best gift I can give myself .... I just hated ... and I mean HATED !!! wrestling that big quilt through my regular machine. I would stress ,and CUSS like a bad mannered truck driver. It was very liberating to use the pros for the big quilts.