If you can cultivate the time, inclination and patience and really want to get this old girl done and out of the way then bite the bullet and get to work. Your posting this question because your just not 100% sure you'll be happy if you finish it by machine piecing. You need to do 2 of the 9 sections, right? In the grand scheme of things that's not all that much and think of how proud and contented you'll be if you do it up right! 'Nuff said