Before I started quilting my MIL made us a quilt using double knit fabric and she hand quilted it. This was at least 25 years ago. Do I need to tell you how heavy it was???? Sure warm in the winter. One washing and the tulip pieces started to fall apart. She had also hand pieced it. It didn't bother me too much at that time. Little did I know!!!!!! When I started making quilts I pieced on the machine but hand quilted. Let me tell you that I had a new respect for quilters and quilting. There is NO way I would make a quilt for $75. It took me 400 hours just to hand quilt a queen quilt for my sister. I didn't consider myself stupid--------just totally ignorant of quilts and making them. However, there are still a lot of stupid people out there. LOL