Emergency shelters, domestic violence shelters, and transition housing are all good spots for quilts that don’t take too fussy of care. Good quality fabric and close enough quilting should make a quilt capable of going through an awful lot of laundry. I make quilts for the Quilts for Kids organization, and they tell you that your quilts may go through hospital laundries every day for weeks or months. No loose threads and no handwork are their approach, and it seems to work.