I started out doing everything by hand - the whole process from piecing to quilting to binding. At the time I had plenty of opportunity to just sit and sew in the company of others or while waiting for kids to get through with their activities or sometimes in waiting rooms.
Anyway I discovered the shortcuts and quicker ways of doing it by machine and got hooked on that. Still very much a novice to the quilting itself but getting better.
Now I'm finding it hard to get back to the hand quilting that is unfinished on the ones I had started earlier. So they spend lots of time in the UFO pile!
However I do have plans to do a couple more that I feel "must" be done by hand. A double wedding ring and a grandmothers flower garden. But I'm not letting myself start on those (other than gathering fabric) until I finish the ones I've already started.