Originally Posted by quiltingcandy
If you make it then it is made by your hand. If you use a machine to help get it done it is still made by your hand. A rose by any other name.....
I have a friend that is 85 years of age that insists her applesauce must be done by using the old hand crank food mill. Years ago I made mine that way and I had to wait until my husband could help with it. (I am 57 years old now.) When I learned that Kitchen Aid had an attachment to the mixer which does the same thing, I can make 18 quarts of applesauce in 3 hours instead of 6, not to mention I can do it by myself in that time, it was a no brainer.
We have these machines for a reason. I love hand sewing. In fact I do both, I hand quilt and machine quilt. It depends what I am making and how soon I need it.
I heard a discussion on a talk show a while back about would Shakespeare have written more plays if he'd had a computer. (let's not discuss all his helpers and DO-ERS!).
My opinion would be yes, because the computer would have done a lot of the "paper pushing" for him. Corrections, additions, rearrangements would have been so much faster.
One of the ladies in the discussion said no, based on her belief that he had x number of plays in him and that was that.
Darn, if I had that Johnson guy ironing for me, I could work faster and turn out more stuff. (maybe)