There is no right or wrong answer to this questions. I'll be honest I love to hand quilt, I find it so relaxing to curl up on the couch and work on a quilt. Machine quilting is in my opinion "WORK". I only machine quilts that I want to finish quickly. I make mostly queen size quilts and because I work full time and go to school it can take me up to 9 months to finish a quilt. I will likely always prefer to hand quilt because I like what I can do hand quilting. I actually have the opposite in my house, my husband keeps asking why I hand quilt when I could do it so much faster on the machine.