Originally Posted by Borntohandquilt
For me it is a big difference if the quilt is quilted by machine or by hand. I have never seen a hand quilted item that is "overdone" in some way. For one of my quilts I used about 10 spools of thread each with 250 yards on it.
Unfortunately I don't have the possibility to see many long arm quilted quilts here in Germany. But on several quilts I saw it was a little too much quilting.
Before modern batting, when batting was just carded cotton laid on the backing it was not unusual for quilting to be a quarter of an inch apart. Compared to those antiques a lot of modern quilts are barely quilted.