I agree with Mama's Place. I also struggle to learn to machine quilt even though I bought a machine with the BSR. I do hand quilt mostly and am the only one in my quilt group that does. I frequently hear "I am done with mine and if you would just machine quilt yours, you would be finished too." I wish I had their talent to machine quilt but I do not think one type of quilting is superior to the other. I would not be happy with my sloppy machine quilting on a project. But one of the days I will get passively better at it.