Andrea, your quilts are amazing!!!! I love hand quilting however arthritis is making it difficult now, which is not good as I came to quilting in my late fifties, so it makes me sad that all the bits had worn out before I found quilting. However, it also makes machiine quilting difficult too. I love the hand quilted quilts but sadly for me my life may have to be about the piecing and then sending the work out to be quilted. Sometimes we just do not have a choice, and if I did it would be to hand quilt happily all my life.