I've been quilting longer than I want to admit. i'm in the same boat as you , as all of mine except 2 or 3 that I machine quilted and 3 I sent out for quilting, I hand quilt. and I made a lot of quilts. I also can't paper piece, I think it's a dyslexic thing with me. I need to sit one day with a scrap pc. and quilt a spools worth all day. just shy away from it. don't want to ruin a top. when I started hand quilting, it was b4 I knew that people did it on dhm.