Originally Posted by
Anael
I really don't care what other people think about machine quilting and machine piecing. I once was told by 2 women (who don't quilt themselves) that what I was doing wasn't piecing or quilting because it should all be done by hand because that's the way it used to be done. So I asked them if they still were travelling on horseback because that's the way people travelled back in the days. They didn't answer that one LOL
My first quilting instructor used to remind us that the sewing machine was invented in 1846. She said, "if you had to chop wood, wash clothes over a fire outside, and do all the other things women did manually in those days, of course you'd use your sewing machine if you could."