Rob, my very first baby quilt was hand quilted and not done with dense quilting, 32 years later & a lot of wear it is still hanging in there. Most of my baby quilts are hand quilted with a few of the recently made ones machine quilted. I don't do a dense quilting pattern on them. I have used Aurifil quilting thread on some baby quilts and the oldest one of those is going on 5 years now ......... it is still being dragged around and going strong.