Ranger, if you give her the quilt 'puckered' she'll know that that's how it is supposed to look. There should be little change when she does happen to wash it. It's the change from a flat, crisp quilt to a crinkled quilt that I try to avoid, especially with non-quilters. She'll fall in love with the crinkled, soft, and cuddly quilt and will never know the flat original state, and quilts with non-poly batts are only flat until that first wash!!