Your quilt is absolutely gorgeous and definitely, please do not take any 'judging' comments to seriously. As a previous poster mentioned, with experience of years of showing animals in fairs while growing up, it was not uncommon to show an animal under one judge one day and win overall grand, just to have the same animal the following day, under a different judge, get sifted. Until the process of 'judging' can remove 'human' aspect of judging (ie, personal preferences, etc), it will always just be a crap shoot. I'd suggest showing the same quilt in another show with a different judge and then compare notes.