Beautiful workmanship "rhueluna".
I commend you for all your hard work and dedication.
Our local county fair is going to reevaluation the judging categories this year so those that do "hand" quilt will be recognized for all the time and work that does go in to their pieces. Though I agree with you that the machine quilts are also beautiful there is a difference and in my opinion there should actually be 3 categories in all fairness - Hand quilted, Free Motion Quilted and computer guided guilting. All are have one thing in common, what the "artist" sees as complimentary to the piece of artwork they are working on but the techniques are all different and need to be recognized accordingly.