About a year ago, I put 4 of the first 5 of my quilts in a local quild / judged show. I wanted to know where I needed to improve and what I was doing 'right' and I really wanted to see what kinds of things this judge looked at. One quilt won the Guild Award - I did not win any of the judge's awards even tho I did appreciate her comments and opinions. On two quilts in particular: one an OBW, had wavy borders but she mentioned not all the hundreds of points matching
and nothing about the wavy. On another quilt, I had some rather unique quilting that put a LOT of motion into the top - and it was as perfectly square as one could get ( worked a long time on it and kept measuring, before quilting, after quilting, after binding, etc.) and the judge noted it had wavy borders. It was, IMHO, an optical illusion with the quilting on it. My point - it's only one person's opinion. They spend just a couple of minutes looking at any given quilt. I will enter some other quilts into 3, maybe 4, shows in this area this year. Not for the comments - but so I can share them with others. Yes, I'll probably read comments again and view them as constructive criticism, and I may or may not take them to heed!