It makes me feel sad that for some people and groups there is only one way to do things. I run a guild that meets monthly and we have covered all types of quilting in our meetings. Several of our members do hand quilting, many LA quilters and many who use their home machines. I do LA quilting, nothing would ever get done if hand sewing was all I did. Jenny Beyer does only hand, but there are as many out there that do only machine sewing and quilting. There must be something right and good about it as many of us do only machine quilting. My grandmother once told me "It's funny how, as soon as someone figured out how to do it by machine, because it was so much faster and easier, there were always a few that decided it was their job to judge how wrong it is. If hand sewing was so great, why do we machine sew all of our clothes, at one time they were all hand sewn." It's so nice to have options for all the things we do, sewing, quilting, embroidery,etc. I don't let anyone judge what I do. They are the ones missing out on so much fun.