I have just marked a table runner for machine quilting which I am not good at so I use decorative stitches in place of straight stitches. I did this for a baby quilt earlier this year and am very happy with the results. Both of these projects had hst and odd shapes of strips. I was very pleased with the baby quilt, and found it to be much easier than straight stitching, if you go off the line it looks like it was suppose to be with the decorative stitches plus it was fun to do.