I quilt by hand and took shorthand. I can still write "simutaneously" in shorthand. That was a word in a letter she was dictating and I was shocked. I said Geez outloud and everyone laughed, including the teacher. Never forgot that word. I love quilting by hand though. I love the look of it more than by machine. Mine isn't perfect but neither am I. I can hand quilt and be in the livingroom with my family, can't do that with machine quilting. I also embroider by hand and piece by hand.
That's funny. Simultaneously in shorthand is as long as it is in longhand.
I quilt by hand. I tried that freemotion and stitch in the ditch stuff. It was a hideous experience. I would much rather prop my feet up on my easy chair foot stool, arrange the quilt on my lap, and hand quilt sans any kind of frame or hoop. I've never made anything smaller than a queen.
My hand quilting isn't perfect and I make no effort to squeeze a bunch of tiny stitches into a small space.
I suppose I'm a little snooty about it. Machine quilting is.....well, sewing.
I cheat, though, and sew the pieces together by machine.