I certainly think it depends on what you want your end result to be. Certainly a donation quilt designed just to cover someone for warmth or for a kid to drag around wouldn't need the the artistic integrity of a blue ribbon winner. But just try to picture one of Sharon Shaumber's exquisite quilts with a hunk of polyester double knit here and there. Then again, I can't picture one of her quilts actually scrunched up on a bed. Get my point?