It's not about giving up quilting as your hobby but thinking outside the box and finding ways to use this talents in different way.
I like the quilt as you go ideas and have found them fun because I can easily quilt an 18 inch square with some wonderful machine quilting right from my machine. I don't have much luck with fmq so I use my walking foot and follow a template or the seam lines.
Remember Georgia Bonsteels Lap Quilting - now that's still a fun way to go and works with hand or machine quilting.
I'm currently doing my Dear Jane as a qayg. Yeah that's hard to visualize but it's happening.
Sometimes you can find a machine quilter who will cut her prices down if you don't mind using your quilt as a practice for a new technique. I have some beautiful examples hanging on my walls from my angle quilter Linda.
Don't give up - just go a different direction with it.