Amount of quilting for a cozy , soft quilt
Many of the quilts at a quilt show are heavily quilted all over. They are beautiful works of art. I have been a hand quilter for a number of years, but am not able to hand quilt a couple of tops I have completed. I chose difficult patterns that took months to complete and to me are exceptional. I am planning to have a long arm quilter quilt them. The close, intricate quilting I see is beautiful, but the quilts are stiff. My hand quilted quilts are soft and drape comfortably even with a lot of quilting. I am not criticizing the intricately quilted machine quilted quilts; I think they are beautiful. I would rather have a softer quilt. Is it okay to have artistic, but less intricately quilted work done, but would it take away from the beauty of the quilt and make it look skimpy?