One other thing about hand quilting---when quilting straight lines, don't quilt long, long, long straight lines, because those can break when the quilt is used in bed when the person under the quilt rolls from side to side and stretches the quilt. Instead of quilting long, long lines, switch directions periodically, or switch which lines of thread you are quilting, at intervals, and come back to quilt another section of the long, long line of quilting.