I find hand quilting most relaxing, I have a friend who tells me she would not waste her time "Quilting" she always has to make some not so nice comment on what I do, this same person brags about her machine embroidery, after she proudly showed us her latest effort of an embroidered dragon my better half said"Isn't that where you just thread the machine with the right color press a few numbers and walk away".
Machine quilting has stunning results and some of the quilts on this site are amazing too but I think hand quilting gives a quilt soul but is very time consuming so lets do both and enjoy, that is what quilting is about..