I can't afford to send my quilts out to be quilted, and to be honest I don't really care for the heavy quilting done by LA quilters. I got tired of doing just STD, so I bought the inexpensive Brother SE400 embroidery machine. I bought mine at WalMart if you are interested. The only drawback is it is only 4 x 4 hoop.
I do over sized queens with that and love how they turn out. It takes a little manuvering, but with the ability to turn the design around on the machine before stitching, it works out. There are tons of outline designs available that I download to my comp then transfer to the machine.