Well, I thought I'd wait a bit to post my reply, because I thought I would be standing alone with my opinion. Thankfully I'm not. All these quilts are absolutely charming in their own right. I can see no "ugliness", just lots of hard work and each of them a reflection of fabrics and expression of the times in the lives of the person who created them. The most important thing is they are meant to be and have been loved and used, that is what quilting is all about after all. I love scrappy, and one of the things that inspired my quilt journey is the history behind what I think is an amazing craft. For instance who could look at the quilts of Gees Bend and the stories behind those quilts and not be moved?