Originally Posted by fancifrock
In speaking with many other hand quilters, we all feel that too much emphasis is being put on the longarm quilting. What ever happened to all the beautiful handwork that went with quilting. Many pieces that we see are pieced beautiful but all of that "quilting" is taking away from the real work that has been done.
As another hand quilter, I respectfully disagree with you. I think machine quilting keeps the quilting industry alive and healthy - if my LQS owner depended on me to keep her shop open, she'd have gone out of business years ago. :)