Originally Posted by
jaciqltznok
I have great issues with a person who designs, and pieces a quilt, PAYS the quilter to quilt it and then has to give credit to the quilter!!!....If a person pays for the service to me that is a bought item like the thread, batting etc. Especially if the quilt is NOT being judged on the quilting, but on the design/piecing. SO I would say if a person PAID for the binding to be on, then it was like paying for the thread, and NO I would not consider that a "group" quilt!
If you go that far, then if the person used a jelly roll that was PRE-cut by someone else, and a store bought binding, would it then also be a Group quilt?
When does it stop?
Thread and batting are materials that go into the quilt, not the workmanship itself. Quilting and binding are part of the workmanship, not materials... Two different things. We all have our favorite part of the quilting process (the designing, cutting, piecing, quilting, binding...) but all of these are part of the process of making the quilt. If more than one person is putting workmanship into the quilt, then it's definitely a group quilt. I know nothing about shows and am commenting from a purely 'common sense' point of view, but it seems that if a person is going to enter a quilt in a show, they should do all of the work themselves. If they share the work, they should share the credit.