Peckish

I second this - huh???? I've laid on TOP of my quilts many, many times and have NEVER had a seam split. Maybe you should switch to a different piecing thread or something.

I figure if someone spills something on a quilt, or it fades, or whatever, then I have a very good reason to make another quilt!

KalamaQuilts said it; if you don't use them, your family won't see them as having any value. My interpretation of this is if you don't use them, your family won't recognize them and won't have good memories attached to them. For instance: why do we make memory quilts out of old clothes? Because our loved ones wore those clothes and we have good memories attached to them! That flowered dress that Grandma wore, or that striped shirt that belonged to our firstborn son when he was 2 - those bring back wonderful memories. Same goes for quilts. My great-great-grandmother made a quilt, it had hand-embroidered state blocks with birds on it. She gave it to her daughter, my great-grandmother, who used it on her bed for years. My grandmother inherited it and recently brought it out of storage. It brought my mother to tears. She remembers seeing that quilt on her grandmother's bed when she was a child, and it has such good memories attached to it. It is worn and faded, but that's not where the value of it lies.