I too just started hand quilting - this week. Your quilt looks soooo good. I don't think I'll ever be able to do the little bitty stitches - don't care. I've been looking at the quilts my mother and grandmother made and my stitches look pretty much like theirs. They were making quilts to keep warm and not for looks. I did one quilt with large stitches & embroidery thread for one of my granddaughters - let her draw pictures & color them on cotton then made a quilt out of the blocks. She was 4 or 5 then. Came out really pretty. Used prarie point around it. The drawings were very primitive. So I'm just having fun and practicing on a baby quilt that's been waiting to be finished since 2009.