Filter, schmilter -- she was just plain rude! I have a friend that is a handquilter ---- I informed her she has nothing over me ---- it took a LOT more for me to learn to use the longarm than it EVER took her to do the handquilting. LOL One day she was giving me a bad time and I asked her if she REALLY believed our foremothers wouldn't have used the "ease" of the longarm had it been available.......LOL She couldn't argue that one. and BTW -- don't you wonder what our foremothers went thru when, oh horrors, someone invented a dumb thing called "sewing machine"!!!????!!! LOL