MaryAnna...I can soooo relate to that. Tomorrow I am sandwiching a quilt for my step-son and DIL. It is HUGE!! I will tough it out on my machine...or maybe borrow my step-daughters as hers has a slightly larger throat than mine. This one will end up part machine done, (SID), and then hand quilted block centres. There are no longarmers where I live, so if I were to go that route, I would have to send it away...and yes, they are very pricey!!
The quilt I did "as you go" was not over quilted. It was done as a learning quilt....so every block was something different.