Originally Posted by moreland
It seems as Long Arm Quilting becomes more and more accessible, the amount of quilting seen on laq quilts has exploded. I have to sometimes wonder if the quilting is trying to outdo the piecing/fabric/design. I am not a laq and I am not taking potshots at those of you who are, but I just wondered if anyone else ever thought about this. I am not convinced that having quilting on every piece of the fabric that is visible is necessarily the "best way"--I tend to feel like it becomes "one upmanship" between piecer and quilter.
Do you think as we get past the initial rapture of now being able to quilt as much as we want to/can, that there will be more balance? Perhaps I'm the only one who thinks it is often out of balance???
A quilter friend and I were talking about this the other day. We thought that there was very little quilting on the laq quilts we had done. I am quilting my first quilt and I am tending to put to much on the quilt that is what started the conversation.
Most of the ones I have had quilted have wide open spaces but they do look nice.
MNM