I also have the Bernina Q20. I love it and the wonderful stitch quality. However......you still need to sandwich quilts (hate this part) and there are still times when the quilt is unwieldly and in my lap or it catches on something and pulls. It's certainly a lot better than my smaller machine though because of the space under the machine and the huge table are great. It can be converted to a long arm, and sometimes I wish I did that instead. But at this point there is no way I'm paying maybe 15 or more thousand to set it up as a long arm. If I wanted a long arm, I would've done that before spending 13 thousand on this one. And I probably would've picked a different machine if I did a long arm to begin with. Good luck figuring it out. It makes such a difference to have the better set up with the sit down especially with big quilts.