You could maybe use it as a "best" quilt - on the guest room bed that nobody uses regularly, and then take it off the bed when the guests need to sleep!
If it is small, I can imagine it would make a lovely central medallion with coordinating fabrics around it like the old medallion quilts.
You could quilt very delicately in the largest spaces between the embroidery. Even do little tacks in the places with a lot of embroidery. I am going to do the same thing if I ever finish the wool applique top that I have been working on for 2 years. It has quite a bit of embroidery too.
I remember doing Crewel embroidery years and years ago, when I was in jr high school, in the girl scouts. It was really fun and I love how it looks. I have a large framed Crewel embroidery picture on my wall that my mother made. Do people still do a lot of Crewel?