Kudos to you, Teresa T. Your quilts are beautiful.
I have hand pieced. The first quilt class I took the teacher had us do everything in kind of an old fashion way. We used templates, sandpaper and hand pieced and quilted a table topper.
I think for some quilts (curved), it is actually easier than trying to do it on a machine.
I gave my mom that table topper and another all done by machine. She uses (& washes) both regularly and the hand pieced one has held up as good as the machine one.