I do both hand and machine quilting. My hand quilting isn't the best, but I taught myself how to do it. My mom always machine quilted hers but she was given a hoop around the time she started working again (and before we had a computer to search youtube). My first attempt wasn't too great, but neither was my first quilt, so both were a learning experience. I hand quilt those that say to me that machine quilting won't give it justice or call for something other than straight lines and machine quilt the rest. I normally only have 1 hand quilting project at a time, but I have 2 at the moment as they are both christmas presents