There will always be someone who doesn't like hand tied quilts. In fact the guild I used to belong to would not allow tied quilt in their yearly quilt show. I was lucky enough to be able to take a class with Helen Wieneman (sp) of Heartbeat Quilts in Hyannis, MA on machine quilting. When asked about tied quilts, she pointed out a cover quilt on a well known quilt magazine was hand tied, and disagreed with the guild's decision not to have tied quilts in a quilt show, as that particular quilt was a lone star quilt. Until she told us it was tied, I doubt any of us would have known. If a tied quilt is good enough to be the cover quilt of a quilt magazine, your quilts deserve the same consideration. I believe, above all, that we should do what makes us happy and always that a quilt is our own art work, so we should do what works for us. I'm sure your quilts are beautiful.