I "sew" agree with you. I do not like anything "over-quilted". Some quilts shown here are so heavily quilted that I cannot see the fabric in the quilt. I sometimes think that "if even you can do it, why? I realize that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I love, love, love the few old family quilts I own. We don't really need, INMHOP, to quilt so heavily. We don't get things as dirty as perhaps folks did years ago, and our laundry facilities are so much better now, that we don't need to wash them to death. Further, I don't think we treat our quilts as roughly as they did years ago when we lacked such nice washing machines.