I am a fellow hand quilter. I can understand your "frustration", hope I didn't over step my bounds in calling it that. I too see all the beautiful machine quilting but just don't get any real satisfication from it. I was surely disappointed in the last quilt show I went to last year in south eastern PA. All the prize winning quilts were machine quilted. I will continue to hand quilt, but I truely do enjoy this site and get many, many ideas and am inspired by all I see hear.