Methinks somebody has their nose out of joint and their head up their ---- and is jealous as sin of those whose piecing skills are of such a level as to allow them to do work like your miniatures!!
There are such stuffy purists out there, poor disillusioned dears. One has to ask those same people if they think it's not a quilt if it's been LA quilted. If that's what they think, my response is always, "Oh? Do you card your own batting too?" With a sweet Southern Belle smile on my face, of course. Huummmpfff
"Does your homegrown tomato taste any better than mine because you dug your row with a stick rather than a hoe????
Jan in VA