Your hand work is beautiful. I keep hearing that hand work will not hold up as well as machine work does. So many have held up for years as there were no sewing machines!!!! Like everything now days, we are in a hurry. We can never make all of the quilts that we would like to. I have pieced by machine but all of my quilts have been hand quilted or hand quilted and appliqued. All are being used and muchly appreciated. Keep up the beautiful work