I'm really suprised at the amount of people that hand quilt. From all of the beautiful quilts I see here, I just assumed that they were all machine quilted or sent out. I have only stitched the ditch or done x's (don't really know the name for that), but I am going to do a quilt for my mom for Christmas and would like to do some hand quilting on it. Do you have to have some sort of frame or something? It will be a lap size.