I love hand quilting, unfortunately my joints in my fingers are beginning to act up. I'm handquilting a twin for my great neice right now, but its been tough. I like 2 1/2 blocks having it finished. I do my binding by hand. I don't have a big enough machine to try MQ. One day maybe. My friend lets me do quilts on her long arm. Just the pantograms so far, haven't got brave enough to try free hand. My first two quilts that I did, I hand pieced and hand quilted them, but that was back in the '90's.