Originally Posted by LindaR
thats very frustrating...sometimes it really makes you wonder if its just a judge's personal taste...
Perhaps, because we are all so different, personal taste does come into the judging, unless there is that ONE outstanding quilt that everybody who sees it says it is a winner!
Even then nobody can say why that is so.
The hardest thing about judging quilts, is the enormous variety among them. Even with categories and divisions
there can be a rainbow of presentations. There are lists of rules. Even looking for the best quilting techniques, and deciding among them can be daunting for the judges.
But a winner must have very very good quilting technique, especially in the pieced quilts category.
It is even harder in the Art Quilts categories.
There, perhaps inovation is the most important criteria.
Technique has multiple meanings, because those quilts can be a combination of quilting techniques which we know, and a large variety of artistic techniques, which we may or may not know, and may be not be familiar with because they are innovative or invented, and even those may not be comparable.
There exists a rainbow range of Art Quilts from those that are only fabric and quilting, to those that are mostly painted.
And then embelishments! ....and abstract vs pictorial!
So, it isn't easy...
And so it is not surprising that not everybody agrees with the judges choice!