I went to a quilt show at a HUGE church several years ago and they handed out some guidelines for quilts to be made for the poor in some foreign countries (their mission work) and they requested that not much time or money be put into any of them because the women had to wash their clothes/bedding in creeks, rivers, lakes, etc. and beaten on rocks. They did not want any time-consuming hand quilting on them either. Just machine quilted or tied.