This past weekend I visited my guild's quilt show, which was marvelous. There was one quilt that was exquisitely machine embroidered -- photos below. The center panel had hot fix crystals throughout.
I remarked to one woman, "Wouldn't you have loved receiving that as a wedding gift?"
She said, "Yes, but can you imagine your husband putting his dirty boots up on it?"
While we were chuckling someone else was admiring the quilt and wondering why it didn't place higher. A woman, who I think was a show official, remarked with disdain, "Yes, the embroidery is lovely, but SHE didn't do it, did she? No. The machine did it."
So, just wondering if any of you have run into this attitude about machine embroidered quilts.
I mean if you use a programmed long arm, you didn't do it ... a machine did it. So what's the difference?