Well I love all the different views and yes it helps me greatly to make a decision. I dont feel that my FMQ on the machine is of standard to try to quilt this on the machine myself at this time. I feel comfortable doing baby quilts on the machine or wall hangings anything bigger at this time I pretty much draw the line. I love hand quilting its very relaxing for me, however again this is so big of a project and I am still pretty much of a novice at doing much else than SITD. I think what I really really would like to do is send it off to be quilted on a long arm by someone who knows what they are doing. I just need to get over my my worries and find someone and send it to them for quilting. I suppose this afternoon I will look on the board and see who is offering services and go from there.