bless your heart. i wish i could afford to own or rent a longarm quilting machine..but the machines i use (mid arm sewing machine and the treadle sewing machine will just have to do. i can understand the elderly womans perspective though...there are those quilts that have been longarmed that look like mattress pads. the lady was just ignorant about such machines and what they are capable of doing. that is not such a bad thing-maybe her daughter or granddaughter refuse to learn to do things the old way and that can be a bitter pill for her to swallow so she criticizes everyone who does something new.