Your quilt is beautiful and handstitching it gives it more of You. I finished the quilt in my Avatar with quite a bit of outline handquilting and I enjoyed it. I used pearl cotton and did big outline stitches - not big enough to catch your finger or toe but they stand out as another accent to the design. As soon as I outlined one or two of the stars I could step back and see the difference. It looked OK and believe me my stitches were not uniform or totally even but it looked good. I would do another using big handquilting for decoration and my quilting foot for straight stitch in the ditch and grid line quilting.