The New York Times - The best quilts

Quilts, to me, are the ultimate symbol of comfort and home. My mother taught me to quilt almost 20 years ago, and I’ve since made quilts for people going through illness and unimaginable loss, but also tremendous joy: weddings and new babies and new homes and sometimes just because.

A handmade quilt is a deeply human object, a tangible way to show someone you were truly thinking about them. And that’s … a lot of pressure to put on a layer of bedding.
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We’ve talked about writing a guide to the best quilts at Wirecutter for years. But weren’t sure how to do it. It wouldn’t make sense for us to test one-of-a-kind handmade quilts or even secondhand and vintage ones. But quilts have been having a moment these last few years, and more and more bedding companies are offering them. We wanted to find the best of the bunch.

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As a quilter, I wasn’t sure how I’d feel about testing mass-produced quilts. I was skeptical about whether a store-bought quilt would feel right—the weight, the texture of the stitching, the price. 
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I spent months testing more than a dozen: sleeping under them, letting my family get them dirty, hibernating my way through the winter with them. I washed them, opened them up to see how they were constructed, and examined them closely to see if they were easily damaged.
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And it turns out, even store-bought quilts can be brimming with life.
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