Sometimes just plain fun quilts get prizes in quilt shows. I have made both intricate hand pieced beauties that took countless hours and funny machine pieced flamingos with very real errors to place well in a local show I enter. The judge actually loved my poor flamingo knees that were very badly done! I make quilts for fun and share them. I have ceased to get overly concerned about my finish for gift quilts beyond the question of have I made a quilt that can handle being washed and dried? I do try to do my best btw!