I love to hand quilt and did handquilt a queen size. It can be done. However.............I now machine quilt most things because as a friend said, "there's too many quilts in my head to hand quilt every one of them". I do understand where he's coming from. I used to think it was a mortal sin to machine quilt
and switching was a lot like changing my religion. I decided it was better for my grandchildren to have all those completed quilts rather than my only having finished one or two.