I made a quilt with the intention of hand quilting it entirely for my daughter. I made the mistake of using bamboo batting which ended up too dense for hand quilting and after many months in, decided there was no way it was going to get done entirely by hand. So to finish it, I used my machine. I cross hatched the quilt by machine with monopoly thread on top and the matching (matched to my hand quilting) cotton thread on the bobbin, around what I had hand quilted. Then finished up the borders with the matching cotton thread. As Bree123 says, done is better than perfect. Here's a picture of my finished quilt. Certainly non-traditional in almost every way, but it's the style she wanted.