My girlfriend who has almost everything she has ever made LAQ'd, was looking at my last two quilts that I had LAQ'd by a person she had never used. Her observation was she liked that the "LAQer didn't pull the top so tight while working on it". She felt that the finished quilt was softer and draped nicer than ones she had done by other people. It does have a lovely feel about it, but whether or not it contributed the quilt's softest, who knows.