I do all my quilts on my DSM.
I've tried a long arm on practice pieces, but I'm not good at it.
If I ever had a windfall of money I would buy a longarm of my own.
I've never sent one out to be done.

Watson

I've had a LA for almost 5 years and do quilting for others (only custom work now), but before I bought it, i used my domestic machine for quilting anything twin size and smaller and sent larger quilts out.

p.S. I help teach a beginner's class and we learn how to sandwich and do some type of walking foot type quilting on our 4 block table runner/wall hanging. some of the local LA'ers wish I didn't do that, but my thought is if we have to send out ALL projects out for quilting then we just don't quilt due to price and process of finding/working with our LA.

I decided right off the bat that I wanted to learn to use a LA. I bought a 15" Bailey on a Grace frame and had that about three years and then bought the HQ Fusion.

I have done FMQ on a domestic machine and really like it, but not the sandwiching or wrestling the big quilts on a small machine.

Gift quilts are sent to a longarm quilter. I, also, send quilts for myself that I want custom (not just E2E) FMQ done.

Charity and my own quilts I typically do on my domestic. I practice FMQ on these and do walking foot quilting.

However, I'll be buying a LA this year when I move. Cannot wait.

I am in the "other" category. I do them by hand unless they are placemats. Anything larger than that I am to chicken to try.

I quilt mine, king size included, in a domestic machine (Brother PQ1500s). I make a lot of QAYG quilts also.

Most of my quilts are hand quilted by me. Now with that said, most of my smaller quilts (baby, & some minis) are quilted on my Elna 500. I have only sent 2 of my quilts to a longarmer. The only reason they were sent out to be quilted was because they were to large to put on my Grace EZ3 floor frame.

I love doing it all myself, I really enjoy the process: thinking up the project, shopping for fabric, piecing, sandwiching (this is only ok, it's not super fun but I don't hate it either), quilting it, going shopping for binding fabric..I learned a long time ago that when I buy the binding fabric ahead of time I end up hating it with the finished sandwich lol. I've rented a longarm twice for king size quilts but it honestly wasn't that fun, it was loud and the store was busy and people kept coming over to have a peek and wanting to talk to me lol. I did enjoy the difference of moving the machine rather than the fabric though.

I have a Juki 2010 now that I do 95% of my sewing and quilting on but I've done countless blankets and quilts and other fun things on my DSMs. The Juki has so much space comparatively, it's crazy!

All my quilts are done by hand. I enjoy the time quilting. I did try a table runner on the machine once and it was a big mess.

I do quilt as you go on my DSM. The method I use is one from Nancy Zieman's books... combination of a few methods I think. I like piecing better than the quilting but I can't afford to pay someone else to do it for me. I've quilted one by hand on a hoop but that's not happening again!