How lovely! and there's no reason at all why you can't mix hand and
machine work. I've even mixed hand and machine quilting! You do
whatever needs done.
Roberta in D

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:17:37 +1000, "DiMa" wrote:

Hi all,

Some time ago I asked about whether a gift was given at the dinner to the
hostess.
You told me that I didn't need to but I did anyway because they have been
very kind to my youngest daughter who loves their son. My daughter also
told me that I have to make a 'curry' as my contribution. Now I am not a
good cook and have decided to cheat and get my Indian born cousin-in-law to
make one for me.

I decided to make the gift which you can see in the link below.
I hand embroidered the centre, machine sewed it together and hand quilted
it. I know, it should have been all done by hand or machine but it turn out
OK I think.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v3...t=S6302634.jpg

The six images are the ones you are looking for.