I just went to a quilt show in Kansas yesterday and I only saw three that were hand quilted and they were mixed in with the machine quilts. I just think it is big business to sell big machines and there aren't too many hand quilters out there or at least they don't put their works on display. There could have been more hand quilts at this shows that I missed. I tried joining a quilt group but almost every one machine quilted and on the days we got together they brought their little machines and worked sewing on machines. There just wasn't much point in being there. I don't mean to say that the women weren't nice and including or anything like that ; it was just a difference in interest.