Wow! you'd think in Tennessee, there'd be more support for hand quilting, I always imagined there are groups of people , sitting on their porches, quilts on laps, going to town with a needle....... Lot's of handquilting options here in Colorado shops.... I haven't tried the Aunty Becky tool yet... I don't know if my fingers would know what to do if they weren't all torn up from stopping a needle... :)