Lynnie, pm me your address and I'll send you one...seriously!

I love to hand quilt. It is relaxing to me to just sit and stitch. My quilts are like diaries to me. I sew all my thoughts into them.

I also hand quilt. I think it is a dying art. I quilt on a large frame and use a metal thimble. I also volunteer to quilt twice a month at a historical village not far from my home. It is so fun to see the school children (and adults also) come in and admire the quilts we work on. Right now I have 3 quilts that need quilting here at home. The one I'm quilting on now is called "Three shades of Gray".

Yes, yes, yes. My very first quilt was a queen size, all hand quilted over 20 years ago. I love handwork so I applique and do english paper piecing so when I put in that much work I think it deserves hand quilting. I have 4-5 quilts going at one time and at this moment 3 are going to be hand quilted. I'd be lost without it in my life!

Yes! I usually machine piece but my last two have been hand pieced and hand quilted. I guess I'm a traditionalist because I'm not real fond of machine quilting. I use a metal thimble and a hoop and quilt while watching TV and while traveling. My Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt went to Fiji and back and made many trips between Ohio and NC. I am currently piecing a Turkey Tracks by hand. I tried doing it by machine but with the Y intersections and curved seams I spent most of my time ripping out seams. I came to the conclusion that it would be faster in the long run to piece by ha. Better for my blood pressure too!

I machine piece but I hand quilt with a hoop and a thimble most of the time. I sometimes do straight stitching on the machine when I'm in a hurry to get something finished, but I can't seem to master FMQ.

At one time I had a machine and it hated me... or I hated it, or something. Anyway, it seemed like everything I did on it came out wrong. I ended up frustrated and gave away my machine to a friend, and ultimately gave up quilting altogether for 10 years.

Then I decided to try again, hand piecing this time. I'm still learning. I'm working on my first quilt, a nine patch, but it's for my 14 yo son and he will love it despite (or perhaps because of) the flaws. He loves coming in and watching me piece his blocks and likes laying them all out to look at them together.

I love hand quilting. It's brought me back to a hobby I love.

And - an added bonus - I'm a single mom on a tight budget and if I were machine piecing, I would go through a lot more fabric. I'm able to stick to my budget this way because the fabric that I buy takes longer to sew up. Win-win. :)

I recently quilted a standard size quilt with pearl 8 cotton in big stitch baptist fan pattern and it actually went pretty fast. I have never been able to use a hoop for quilting. I generally baste closely with thread or lots of curved safety pins and work at my dining room table. I have a TV & music close by and a sliding glass door that overlooks woods - it's actually quite relaxing. Leah Day's big stitch quilting tutorial got me hooked.

Yes, I have one that I am working on. I also use a hoop, but I use a metal thimble. Most of my quilts I pay to have quilted, but some of the small ones I have quilted on my sewing machine.

I'm so happy you are finding something that works for you and that you enjoy! My boys always watched me quilt growing up and now as adults really appreciate my work.