I have to say that a cathedral window is not just "tacked down at the intersections" I hand sew all the way around each individual window through all thelayers of fabric.
That was how a very elderly lady from the Appalachia mountains taught me to do it.
I also won a blue ribbon at a quilt show with it...
There seems to be a movement in the quilt world right now about what constitutes a "quilt" and what doesn't. The debate will continue but what good does it do in the end????