I have sent out my quilt for a long time, since I could no long hand quilt. I give the quilter credit but still feel as if they are my own as I picked the fabrics, sometimes designed them, cut and pieced it and usually put the binding on., spending way more time on it than a quilter would. A few years ago I bought as small machine and frame so do some on that and also some on my domestic machine. It just depends on what size quilt it is and how I want it to look whether I send it out or try to do it myself.