This past June I sent a quilt to a LA for the first time. Loved the results. I have been doing my own on my small throated Brother machine using waves and lines and it was OK. BUT CKCOWL on this board has now spoiled me!! She comes from the area I was born in and it was fun to meet her and to have her LA a quilt for me. It does make the quilt more expensive, but they are finished so nicely.