That is the main reason I don't enter quilts in our local or State Fair. You get to see a 1'x2' section of the quilts. I think of all the work a person has put into these to only see such a small portion. Last year,I quilted a quilt for an entrant, kind of like a double wedding ring in cross stitch. She just got a participation ribbon. The one that won Grand Champion, it was basically all one coloring,(browns) very hard to even see what it was. Didn't even see any quilting other than stitch in the ditch. Now I'm not saying the DWR like one should have won just because I quilted it, but, to me, with the cross stitching, there was a lot more time involved in it and more pleasing to the eye.