We winter in TX and they is a quilt shop near us that does that and it seems to be popular. I believe they have the quilting boards that you use a stylus to follow. And she did make the quilters do a hour or so training. I do believe that it would work. The only problem I could see is that everyone does not handle a machine the same and some folks can be pretty rough on something that they did not realize the cost of, kind of like renters.. that is just my opinion. I have my own quilting machine so I would not use it, but before I bought the machine I would of rented a machine if possible.