To clarify, are you talking about piecing or quilting? It takes a very long time to hand piece a quilt top. My teacher had us hand piece the first three blocks we did, but we have machine pieced everything since. I made one exception. I could not get a Y-seamed LeMoyne star to come together correctly on the sewing machine, so I ended up hand sewing it. I actually like hand sewing, but am too much of an instant gratification junky to do it all by hand. I am thinking about starting a needle turn applique quilt to have hand work for when I am watching TV.