I'm a scrappy person myself, so I see this quilt differently. When I was about 7 years old, I had nothing but ear aches for a few years. Remember the warmed up ear drops. We had to stay in bed when we were sick. But I loved my bed spread and spent many hours playing with small figures on my knees under the quilt. Remember RL Stevenson's poem: Something like when I was and lay in bed....looking at his counterpane. Well I looked at my bed spread and imaged many things.