In my opinion, I think, in time this will change. When I belonged to a quilt guild, they would not accept tied quilts in their annual quilt show, which I thought was ridiculous, but I was only one person. However, I remember a quilt teacher that had been asked to come to our guild and teach a class afterwards, who stated that that criteria was out dated. She pointed out a quilt which had been featured on the cover of a national quilt magazine, done by her or someone in her quilt shop, which had been tied, so she didn't understand the guild's position. I'm hoping that in time it should be OK for quilts shown in a show to have binding sewn on a machine.