Hello & welcome from Texas. Since you don't relish the thought of having to struggle with quilting a whole quilt on your domestic sewing machine have you considered the Quilt As You Go method? It's where you make a block, sandwich that individual block with the batting & backing & quilt the individual block. When you've got all your blocks made & quilted then you put them together with sashing between to make your finished quilt. There are several different ways to quilt as you go & many you tube tutorials, etc. on the web. Hope this will help you. I've never done the QAYG method but hope to try it soon.