You will find a great many that love to hand quilt. I do some of each.

Interesting you say it is a lost art. When I lived in Montana I learned to hand quilt. Here in Vegas I was told by three workers at different shops that people don't hand quilt anymore. Personally I enjoy it and so does my 22 year old daughter.

I also am a hand quilter and LOVE it!!! I am hoping to turn my passion into finishing quilts for others - finishing Grandma's, Momma's, Aunt's quilt top that never got finished. This way, I get "my fix", don't have to spend money on fabric, make a few bucks on the side - and most importantly finish those treasures the way they were meant to be instead of them sitting folded up in a closet not being enjoyed by family and friends!

I hand quilt and hand piece some projects. Right now I have a farmer's daughter being hand pieced and an amish throw getting ready to hand quilt. It takes me forever, and I do it in spurts. I love and enjoy both processes, hand an machine.

I hand quilt all of mine for the last couple of years. I find it relaxing

I handquilt as well. I love it. It is portable, so I can easily take it when we go in the motorhome. I am also learning machine quilting (teaching myself) for those things that I would like to get done a whole lot sooner. I also love doing the whole cloth quilts. I use nylon tricot on my whole cloth quilts, and I do them for very close friends and families for weddings. They have an LDS temple on them.

Thanks for the replys for the techniques to use for the underneath finger so as not to get stuck with the needle. Will try them next time I hand quilt.

I can't wait to learn how to hand quilt!

That is an intersting question. When I have gone to show so many are hand quilted, just a bit more as the years go by are machine quilted. I always thought machine quilting was a bug-a-boo in the quilting world. Now it sounds as though it may be overtaking hand quilting? Don't know but I don't hand quilt, never could enjoy it, so I machine quilt.

Hand quilting and machine quilting are two different kind of arts. I think they should exist side by side of the same value.

I am glad to see that some of the big quilt shows keep catergories for both!