I use mine as a bedspread but we sleep under it all winter. We do take the quilt off the bed to sleep in the summer time. I also have smaller ones on all of the chairs in the house and one on the sofa in the livingroom. Mine are handquilted. I have one as the cover on my coffee table, an old trunk and lots of small ones on the walls. All of ours are used. When my daughter's dog died while she was away at college I discovered that the quilt that was left on her bed at home was badly stained underneath as the dog had accidents all over it. The bed was a waterbed so the mattress was not ruined. I washed it and it is on the sofa in the basement family room.