This is going to date me for sure, but I'd like to tell my story about my first quilt. I saw some red, white, & blue fabric with 1776/1976 on it and decided to make a quilt for my son. Of course it was in 1976, and I didn't know anyone that was quilting at the time. I knew that my mother had quilted in the past. Well, I cut red, white, and blue squares and used some of the special fabric that I saw and made it into a quilt and TIED it. I was so pleased with my success that I showed it to an older neighbor woman. She pointed out that since I had TIED it and not QUILTED it, that it was NOT A QUILT but a COMFORTER instead! My first encounter with THE QUILT POLICE!!!!! Another neighbor told me not to listen and that it was indeed a quilt. I happly dismissed what the first woman had told me. A quilt is a quilt whether it is tied or quilted as far as I am concerned.