lindadee and beaglelady, you are correct. Guess I didn't make myself clear. I had read several comments to the thread suggesting that heavy quilting was necessary to make the quilt last longer and I was offering my belief that that was not necessarily true and offering proof. Even though I do put quilting designs in some "white" spaces and along a plain border they are minimal in their ornateness but, again, you are both correct in that it is more than just minimal. Thanks for pointing this out.