You are whomever you believe yourself to be. You are awesome!!
Naysayers will say nay about many things. I embroider on my quilts, and use only my machines to do all the work as my hands will not let me handsew or embroider anything. I am a skilled quilter, a seamstress, a designer, an artist, an engineer, a laundress, a mid arm machine panto user ( I trace designs and sew over them--yippee for me), a fabric collector, I even color in the quilting coloring books, clean my own machines, and tidy up after myself. I am professional at whatever I do in my world. No matter how I do it. So that makes me an advanced professional quilter too. You go girl!