I do both, depending on the style and size of the quilt. I just finished a queen sized quilt by quilting it in sections using Marti Michell's directions in a book with that name. I wanted to quilt each block individually depending on the design (there were 144 6" blocks). But I just took a full sized quilt to a friend to long arm because I wanted an all-over pattern. Sometimes I supplement long arm quilting with hand quilting. Mostly, I try to do smaller things myself using my walking foot as my FMQ is pretty shaky.