HillCountryGal

I've been a quilter for 1 1/2 years. Started out machine quilting, then wanted to learn to hand quilt. Took me almost a year (not working every day) to complete a hand quilted double bed size quilt. LOVE the process. I'm currently working on a whole cloth quilt. Not good at all.. but I'm learning and again, enjoying the process.

SherriB

I am new to hand quilting. I am working on Grandmother's Flower Garden hexagon quilt. I cut all the hexie's by hand and am sewing them together by hand. My stitches are far from perfect but I am slowly (very slowly) getting there. I am looking forward to quilting it all by hand. I enjoy sitting by my sunny living room window and just stitching away. At night I will watch a little tv to keep my mind occupied.

Traditional Quilter

I am a hand quilter. I just prefer the look of hand quilting. I quilt in a hoop, but have a Grace Z44 frame that hasn't been set up in years. I just couldn't master quilting with my thumb. Recently, I've been thinking about giving it another try. I bought a Roxanne thimble for this years ago, but my hands are large and the thimble is huge and clumsy. I recently started researching thimbles and found Ted Storm's and Thimblelady's that looked interesting, but Ted Storm's has to be ordered from Germany or the Netherlands and Thimblelady's from Australia. Yesterday, I found a T. J. Lane thimble at Jinny Beyer's Studio. It is light weight and feels like a part of my hand. It was the same price as the other two and I could try it on. Played with it last night, and I think with practice I can do it. So as soon as I finish the quilt I'm quilting now I'm going to set up my Z44 and give it a try.

About five years ago I took a FMQ class from Harriet Hargrave, but haven't practiced enough to be any good at it. I did this to quickly finish up some of those tops hanging in my sewing room -- they are still hanging there.

ScrappyAZ

I started quilting about seven years ago and hand quilted everything because machine quilting scared the heck out of me. I also feel I have more control when I hand quilt. This year, I decided to give machine quilting a try on two table runners. I have to admit machine quilting certainly goes faster, but I'll probably go back to hand quilting larger quilts.

bobbiesboutique

I like to do both I have one Quilt I am working on that s hand pieced and I plan to hand Quilt then I have my machine quilts I work on.

francie yuhas

Count me in! I'm so relieved to hear that folks do both machine and hand quilting on the same piece. SID is with machine...the rest done by hand. And the quilt police will never know,as I don't put them in shows.

fabricbeforefood

I am a handquilter, and will always be a handquilter. I think it gives a personal touch to a quilt; besides, can't afford to have them machine quilted.

Ranchwife

Hand quilter here also. I love being able to set in my rocker and hand quilt of an evening. I just finished a lap quilt that was completely hand quilted, except for a SID around a fussy cut border (http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...t-t216293.html). I've tried FMQ, but I have a standard machine and find it very difficult to quilt on it - even for a wall hanging sized quilt. I can't for the life of me do a rocking stitch, so I do stab stitching with my right hand on the bottom and left hand on top. Yep, hand quilting is the best.

SouthPStitches

Yes, I'm a hand quilter too. Finding I'm having issues though at age 59. Between arthritis, bursitis and carpal tunnel problems, I can't hand quilt as much as I'd like to. I still hand quilt anything under the size of a queen bed quilt. My last two quilts I had LAQ'd and I love them. I found a lady that does lovely work and is extremely reasonable. These two mentioned quilts I used strictly what I had in my stash so felt I could afford to splurge, plus they were too big to even attempt to wrestle with.

Hand quilting is very peaceful and soothing. It's fun to watch the quilt gain dimension with each stitch and it's fun to revisit each and every fabric. While quilting, I've noticed subtle things for the very first time in the fabric prints.

mpspeedy2

I have been a handquilter for at least 40 years. I only machine quilt Linus quilts and gifts for non quilters who have a tendancy to wash things to death like my step-daughter.