Personally, I prefer hand quilting. For me, it feels more handmade and traditional. I also prefer the traditional patterns and scrappy quilts, but that's just my opinion. You do lovely work. I have moderate RA , which makes handquilting more difficult, so I usually only handquilt my smaller pieces, having, reluctantly, to resort to machine quilting for my larger quilts, but i choose the pattern and I don't care for heavy qulting.