I stated hand quilting, just table toppers. Then I relaized I wouldn't be able to do many quilts that way. I was hooked on quilting couldn't afford to have my quilts LA so I learned to free motion quilt 5 years ago. Started on small projects first. Lots of practice with table runners. Then I got a Pfaff expression 2 and and I have done larger quilts. Now I have a Pfaff Creative 2 and I am quilting queen size to king size quilts with ease they take awhile but they are beautiful when they are done and they are done by me. I took 2 FM quilying classes and watched a lot of Youtube videos and have many books on free motion quilting. Now I custon quilt for others who don't FM Quilt, Smaller quilts mostly since most of the LA around here would rather not do small table and wall quilts. It takes practice, practice, practice.