Interesting thread. I spent Saturday working with my 4-Hers on their quilt projects for our quilting club. Each of the leaders had their own way of doing hand quilting, Big Stitch and machine quilting. We kept reminding the members that there are no quilt police. And it's Their quilt not anybody else's. AS long as it fulfills the requirements of the project that's all we want - a center piece with borders, some machine quilting, some hand quilting, some Big Stitch and then finished as required (binding, self-binding, some way to hang a wallhanging....)