Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts. I contemplated for quite a while about purchasing a longarm and in the end I just couldn't justify the cost. I'm fast approaching fifty and I don't knock out quilts quickly enough. I estimated how many quilts I might make over the next 20-30 years that I would choose to have machine-quilted and what my longarm quilter charges per quilt on average. It turned out to be so much less expensive to have her or another person quilt them for me. Now, if we strike the lottery I would buy a longarm machine in a heartbeat! LOL