I do tiny stitches, too. By the time I'm quilting the quilt I just want to get the dang thing done! I've also done the old take a couple of stitches and backstitch one or two stitches with success. Once it's washed it all buries itself anyway. Entered a quilt in a local show with stitching like that and won best of show, so it goes to show that you don't HAVE to bury the stitches to enter a quilt in a show!