Originally Posted by
BellaBoo
Most county fairs have relaxed rules for entries. If they were too rigid there would be nothing entered. I am in charge of the quilts at our local fair. The categories are hand quilted, hand pieced. Hand pieced, machine quilted. Machine pieced, hand quilted. A tied quilt is considered hand quilted, they never win top prize though. A winner is selected from each category by size within that category. Multiple names can be on one entry, the judges never see the entry sheet though.
Being that you are the in-charge person at your Fair, then it's time to have a new class for those Hand Tied Quilts to compete with each other. Every Fair here has at least one tied class ... sometimes more, allowing for different sizes or types of quilts. Another class that I like to see is "at least 50 different fabrics". The frustration comes when I have to decide which class for a quilt to be entered into!
(aside from interpreting the "rules"!
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