The first post expresses my situation, too. I love hand quilting, but it takes so long. An added difficulty is that I am not able to sit very long at one time, so it gets done in very small increments. I think if I could sit and quilt for three hours at a time, or even one hour, I would do more hand quilting. But I end up machine quilting more often because it is faster. I came to quilting late in life, and there are so many quilts I'd like to make. I think simple, modern large piece quilts go very well with all over FMQ designs, whereas I prefer hand quilting on traditional quilts.