I have never hand quilted anything before. And I've struggled to machine quilt it because I just am not that talented. So I've just tied things before with yarn and called it good. However I have wanted to hand quilt things for a very long time (at least attempt to do so) and today I decided to just do it. I put the quilt up, and then took a deep breath and did my first few tentative stitches with hand quilting. After and hour I decided it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, and after two hours and no mistakes I decided not only did I think the look wasn't half bad, but the texture of the quilt felt awesome. So I think I'll continue. I've only got 1/3 of one block (out of twelve total) done, but so far so good.
It looks fairly childish compared to some quilting stitches I've seen, but for a beginner, I think it's not half bad. :-) That and I enjoy it...it's relaxing to me...if I could not get a crick in my neck from bending over it! :-)
