Um, Illinois, I'm guessing you don't like quilt kits, or machine quilting. That's fine, to each her own. But to say quilters don't select their own fabrics, do a bad job contsructing the quilt and that machine quilting is inferior, is unfair. I love to select my fabrics, I love very challenging patterns and to say that my quilts are inferior because I machine quilt them is,well, a little quilt police for me. The idea is to bring new quilters into our craft and welcome them. If I were a young lady,with perhaps a job and a family, I like I would take advantage of ways to make a nice quilt, but do it quicker. I don't think there is anything wrong with that!