Originally Posted by mrs. fitz
At two shows I recently attended there were quilts with ribbons (in one case Best of Show) that had the notation "professionally quilted". I don't understand. If I make a quilt and then send it out to be quilted by someone else, I didn't make the whole thing and it's not fair to someone who did it all herself (himself). None of the quilts to which I'm referring indicated who the "professional quilter" was.
If you can have it "professional quilted", why not "professionally pieced" or "professionally appliqued" and still say that you did it and enter it in a show? :wink: Isn't there a distinction between professional and ameteur? I thought I saw that on a show description, or a winning description, somewhere. I don't think it's fair to have a professionally quilted one competing with someone that did all the work themselves.