Thanks for the tutorial. I'm glad to hear that you can successfully hand quilt without a thimble a stitch at a time. I attempted hand quilting using a thimble one time but couldn't get the rocking motion down comfortably. I just finished my first hand-pieced bed sized quilt top and am nervous to attempt the hand quilting. A local long-arm quilter said she never machine quilts hand-pieced quilt tops so I'm on my own for the quilting.