I guess a few machine quilters out there are mad at me. I am sorry. I didn't mean that machine quilting is bad. I meant that when you take an antique quilt top or hand pieced work of are and stick it on a machine and do random loops all over it, it seems to me to ruin it. If you make a machine quilt and do some nice quilt work on it with a machine it comes out beautiful. I certainly think its a wonderful thing that machines are out there to do their work too. I just feel bad to take a hand pieced work and get the quilting over with by setting it in a machine and walking away. Sorry for the artist out there that took me the wrong way. I love the intriquet work that some machine quilters do and the hard work they put into it. You aren't the ones I am referring to.