I just took two quilts to a LA on Friday. These are my second and third quilts ever that went this route. One is too big for my machine and I to handle and the other just needed a little something special to make it POP! I have not tied a quilt since I made a doll quilt years ago. Quilts are done on my domestic with some kind of meandering. (I just can't seem to get that stitch in the ditch thing to work for me.) I try to always have one small piece to hand quilt so I can perfect that skill.