How many of you...
 

How many of you send out your quilts to a LA quilter vs. quilting your own, be it hand quilting, tying, or machine free hand?

I do all my own quilting now, but used to send some out.

I can't afford to send quilts out (but I think I'd prefer to do them myself, even if I could afford it).

I have only sent one out. I had a quilt top I had purchased at a show that I wanted to give my step-daughter for her 20th wedding anniversary. I sent it out because she is a nurse and washes everything to death. I never saw it on her bed and she and her husband have split up. My husband paid for the quilting and I paid for the top. I am a hand quilter but I wouldn't waste it on someone who didn't know the difference.

Since I can't FMQ, I sent out all my 'good' and nice gift quilts to the LAQ. I use the walking foot and quilt all donation/charity/utility quilts myself.

I have quilted "all" my own quilts by machine. My nephew's wife just made me a quilt from my deceased sister's fabrics and she sent it out to be quilted. It was done very poorly. The quilting design did not really go with the quilt & all the thread tails were left loose.

I quilt all my own, either very simple FMQ or straight line quilting. I don't tie, (not that there's anything wrong with that!)

I raised my own children and I quilt my own quilts. :o

Just me, but I could never claim to have made a quilt if part of it was done by someone else.

I always do my own quilting. Far from a professional job but I would not think of it as my quilt if someone else did the quilting. Also I am a bit of a control freak and like to have the final say.

That is just my opinion and not necessarily right.

Mine are all done by me. I've thought many times about sending the larger ones out, but cannot afford it, and I feel it would be a little less from me also.