I am a big "NO" on EPP. I have not even tried it and have no desire. It does not interest me in the least. I do no like hand sewing at all. My handwork consist of crocheting only. I do not even hand sew my bindings. Once I learned and it became "acceptable" so to speak to machine sew my bindings, I was 100% on board. Machine sewing bindings in my opinion have evolved more recently in the quilting world. When I first started quilting, I hand stitched the back of my bindings, and despised it the entire time. That was just how it was done then. Along came the method of sewing it down with your machine and my quilting world all of a sudden got brighter. I do not enter heirloom quilts into judging, which if I were, that I realize needs to be hand stitched. I make donation quilts. I see EPP hexi quilts, beautiful, I see small wool hand stitched mini quilts, wall hangings, table runners, gorgeous. I really admire the small wall hangings that have the hand stitched designs, buttons, and blings, that are sometimes vintage hankies or clothing, or random shapes of fabric, again gorgeous, but those are things I admire when someone else does it, but have no desire to do it myself.