My first quilt was made of hand cut 2 " squares, but machine stitched together on my mother's featherweight which she had given me. It was pretty wonky and the wonderful ladies who hand quilted it never said a word. Bless them for that-any criticism and I might have been turned off of sewing forever, but I did sew clothing for the family for years. That was 50 years ago and I still have the quilt and I see my awful cutting and sewing and their wonderful stitching. I really wanted to quilt, but couldn't handle the scissors well-my hands just became double jointed after a few minutes.