I have always hand quilted mine! I have only sent one out, and that was a T-Shirt quilt that I totally botched and had to be baled out of a mess. Because it takes me so long to hand quilt, it seems that lately I have been doing baby or lap quilts. I'm ready to get back into bedsize quilts, so I am attempting to learn machine quilting. I still think I will attempt to get a hand quilted look with machine quilting. I'm not much for overall quilting. I like to enhance the design of each individual block. I guess it was the way I learned to quilt in the beginning, now over 30 years ago.