I have made 3 quilts and am in the middle of 2 more, all done on my Brother XL2600i. It is definitely the most frustrating part of quilting for me, wrestling a heavy quilt in the machine. I may try quilt as you go so I can try some more difficult quilting designs (other than straight line quilting). I haven't tried it yet because the thought of hand stitching the back intimidates me, and I don't like the options to machine stitch the back. I guess I have more quilt wrestling in my future until I get up the guts to try it!