I hand quilted for years, when machine quilting became popular and more knowledge as how to do it became popular I jumped onto the bandwagon and started doing it. It is so much faster and I have so many quilts I want to make and so much fabric I want to use, I will never hand quilt any but, a few quilts for a Grandchild or Great Grandchild. I have handquilted all the Grands and 1 Great Grand baby quilts. I think all should quilt however they want to.