If you can afford it, by all means hire it out to be quilted.
If you want the sense of total accomplishment ... then do a whole lot of practice pieces. Practice and patience.
Did you walk on your first try? I doubt it. I bet you kept falling down. But ... you got up and kept on trying and you could walk and talk at the same time after more walking practice.
Your choice. Neither is right or wrong. It is just a choice.
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