It's the piecing I love too. My quilting usually consists of a 1/4" outline stitch to hold the layers together. I'll never be one who does the fancy quilt stitching as 1) I won't ever have a longarm, and 2) I'm not physically able to manage it on my regular machine. I prefer the minimal quilting anyway, as I like quilts to be soft and fluffy.
The quilting work I see here on the board is lovely and fascinating, and the skill and artistic ability quite blows me away. It just isn't anything I strive towards in my own quilting. Like seeing great art, I have a deep appreciation, but it doesn't make me love my own scribbles any less. LOL