30 years ago, that's all I did was hand piece and quilt. But in the last 1 1/2 I've joined the machine quilting group. But I must say, I did a much nicer job hand quilting than machine piecing. I want to be able to do it all. I don't have a machine that does the fancy stitches, just straight lines. So you just never know what I'm going to come up with because I do love all the feathery quilting and can't afford to send everything to a longarm.