Yeah... I have yet to bust into the handsewing whole garments thing. Nt because I'm not interested, but because... well... I'm lazy. I'm made coifs completely by hand and put trims on completely by hand, but I doubt my poor hands would hold up long enough to do the handsewing required of the Ren-faire crap I make. Blah.

But major points to you for hand sewing the pet en l'air.

And I do agree. Sew things the way you want, not because other people judge sewing machines as somehow inferior.