I've been out-of-circulation for several months and just happened onto this thread. Questions -- Do you want us to show you pictures of our art quilts, or do you want us to join contests? Because once you've shown a quilt on QB usually that means it can't be in a contest on QB, right???
I've got an art quilt that I did submit to QB but it got lost and has not surfaced (not the quilt, but the pictures, and almost surely my fault). I'd love to share it. My latest, a landscape quilt, probably won't fit into any categories but it is worth sharing. It is one of those quilts that YOU decide the theme and IT takes control from there.
On another, relevant, theme... If one intends to enter a quilt in a quilt show is it bettr NOT to have it on QB first? I'm thinking of area/guild shows because I don't think anything I've made would get into one of the national shows. While I've won a couple of firsts and a second (for original wall art and... best of something?) I am not that great of a cutter/seamer/quilter. Actually I'm not particularly an artist either. That's the beauty of "art" quilting. You lay down the groundwork and the quilt takes over and you find yourself doing all sorts of things you hadn't planned!
If I can get my daughter to do it for me I'll put up an older quilt I did about 2 or 3 years ago. It may explain what kind of a quilter I am better than I can. The bottom line is that blocks drive me crazy (and I can't afford to go any further that way) so I stay with doing what happens. I notice there aren't that many pictures up... is everyone waiting for what to do between pictures and contests?
Sierra