Some quilt shop owners seem to forget who their customers are! If you're buying fabric, what difference does it make how you're sewing? Personally, I take my hat off to all of you who hand piece & quilt!! My hands just don't work well enough to do that. :D
My first quilt class - which I still attend 15 years later :wink: - is an adult education class, and the new students are still started out with hand sewing & quilting only. After they've been quilting for a while, it's their choice what project to do. So now, we have hand quilters & machines all working together! What a concept, huh? :wink: :lol: