I am a split personality quilter. I love all the new stuff, rotary cutters and acrylic rulers etc. Good machines with features that our foremothers would have commited a sin for have made the art of quilting doable for ADD people like me. The old style part of me has to have a handwork piece going and at least one hand quilted top going. I love the whir of my machine and also love the sound of the thread being pulled through the layers of my new bed quilt project.