Originally Posted by raksmum
I think I am glad I'm not a good enough quilter to enter into these shows. All of this sounds like it takes the fun right out quilting.
I had a friend who had made some quilts. They were all mixed scrap dark service quilts.
She called herself "just an ordinary country woman".
She liked to embroider, so now and then i would draw flowers or birds on squares of muslin for her to embroider.
One day I gave her five squares of muslin upon which I had drawn the outlines of tiger lillies. When she finished them I made her sew them together with four golden yellow fabric squares to make a nine block center of a top.
Despite her protests, I made her add yellow and orange borders to it to complete the top. She was amazed!
I helped her add batting and a back, and bound it for her.
She said: "I didn't know quilts had to have a plan!" and protested and grumbled while she was making it - "That don'cha know this is all too much work!" - but she quilted it! - and was delighted with it!
Anyway...I sent it off to a quilt show in another part of the state and entered it as a two person quilt with both our names on it. I took a photo of it hanging in the show, and gave it to her.
You can't imagine how tickled she was!
It made me laugh just to be around her.
Meantime she secretly made another quilt all by herself, this one of embroidered red cardinals, (that I drew for her) and chose shades of green for the squares and borders.
The sad part about this story, is that she unexpectedly and suddenly died one day. Her daughter put the the tiger lilly quilt on her casket and added the one I had never seen, her secret, her red and green and white cardinal quilt!
This story is, "Just do your best!" Put it in a show and be very very tickled about the fun of it all!