This has been a fun thread to read. You all are insightful!
I think the wash/don't wash comes up all the time.
This one had me baffled:
I asked once when is a quilt a quilt. This was one of my first topics because I was researching this wonderful craft of quilting and saw so many types of quilts made up of so many mediums. I got confused because some folks referred to landscape quilts as simply art. No "quilt" word in the description when clearly the item in discussion was sewn, layered, quilted, had a binding, but had no geometric pieces in it. Seems like the lack of the last thing mentioned disqualified it from being a quilt.
I think the hoopla and oohing and awing over the art quilts gets the feathers of geometric quilters ruffled. This brings on heated words of what is really a quilt and what is not.
Just sayin.......