I'm learning to do free motion quilting, following Leah Day's blog and web-site, so helpful. She mentions that some of the show quilts can almost stand up on their own because of the heavy quilting! One that I finished recently was for practice and decoration so did lots of quilting. The next one I made for my son and wanted it to be softer and cuddly. Had a hard time not quilting every inch of it because it's fun to do.LOL