In my personal experience the heavily quilted quilts are stiffer and require more washing to get soft. It is logical that the more quilting makes the batting more rigid.
And I'm with you. Why do people do it? Because they can. In the age of longarm quilters it is very easy to go mad with the quilting.
But I'm also like you. I don't like it.
The quilts will last. And likely, many of them won't go on beds, possibly won't EVER be washed.
And judging? Personally, I'm not fond of that either. It's sort of silly. As far as I'm concerned, they are the height of introducing inaccessibility into quilting.
The quilting world has lots of room for everyone's niches. If we're not keen on the ones that exist, we make our own.
Last edited by TeresaA; 04-21-2014 at 11:28 AM.