I have noticed that machine quilting examples all tend toward the extremely heavily quilted. Why is that?
Every once in a while, my hand quilted pieces get away from me, and they are as heavily quilted as the machined examples I see, but for the most part, my hand quilted pieces have plenty of quilting, but not so much as to weigh them down.
The reason I am trying to learn this new skill is not to replace my hand quilted quilts, but to be able to accomplish more. That, and my raw edge fusing ideas.
So why do most people machine quilt with more, rather than less?