My grandmother hand pieced and quilted by hand. I machine quilt on my machine for the simple reason that I do not have patience. When I have a few more quilts done, I may consider, because I am joining a quilting group that hand quilts. I like the look of Hand quilting better then machine quilting, and I am not using free motion at this point(do not have enough control over my machine :roll: ) Sorry for being so long winded, but to sum it up, I don't do it because I don't know how.