Originally Posted by
KathyKat
Years ago, before I even started quilting, a co-worker bought an Amish made quilt. Then she entered it in the county fair where it won a blue ribbon. We don't know if she put the Amish person's name on as the quilter or not. All of us that worked with her were apalled because we thought that entries were supposed to be the entrant's own work. Were we wrong? If an entrant can pay for the quilting and binding, why not pay for the whole quilt and enter it? Of course credit should be given to the true maker of the quilt.
It depends on the rules of the show, and sad to say, the honesty of the person entering.
The International Quilt Association has a rule that you can't enter a quilt where the top maker paid for someone to quilt it - if you don't do it all or enter as a group quilt, the quilt has to be a collaboration between two quilters. They did this so someone couldn't buy their way into a ribbon. But they're the only group that does this, to the best of my knowledge.
Janet