I was so frustrated with hand quilting this a.m. and I'm ok now as I decided to quilt my lone star by machine. I just can'tremember beans on the hand quilting and I knbow I'm not perfect either. I'm not good enough to enter a quilt in a contest and such. Too many quilt police I guess and with all the hard work we put into our quilts, it can be a pain when some one says some thing isn't right. I just think well it's my quilt, I'll do it MY way! Well I have two points all quilted on my lone star and I'm stitching in the ditch around all the little diamonds. One of the ladies posted a video on hand quilting, but there was no sound and there were flaws in the videos as they were sketchy. I do plan on getting a book and practicing on smaller items. Keep up the great work we all make mistakes,, that's why they put erasors on pencils. Huggies, Fay