Originally Posted by
Judi in Ohio
I actually did not get a negative vibe from the term "quilted to death" and I did not assume that said quilting ruined a quilt. I think this is a statement that many people would say because it is descriptive of what is going on in the quilt judging world right now.
In what world is "to death" not negative? Why would anyone want to do something with the result of death? Death is generally a negative thing. "Worked to death" doesn't imply a positive, "quilted to death" tells me it was quilted to the point of ruin (death).
I don't think quilted to death is descriptive of show quilts right now. Perhaps "heavily quilted" or even "very heavily quilted" is; but to death is incredibly negative to me.
Personally, I don't care for many pieced quilts- I like more free flowing designs or representational designs, or quilting where the thread is the star, but I would never tell someone who put a lot of hard work into a postage stamp quilt and then just ran a light stipple over it that their quilt was pieced to death!
Originally Posted by
maggie_1936
I agree tied quilts are soft and cuddly but you never see them in shows. the over quilted ones are just for show not to be used.
Many quilt shows will not accept tied quilts, though some will- which is why you may not see many.
I've only seen very few over quilted quilts in shows (especially juried ones, which have high standards.) Now I've seen some that are incredibly heavily quilted, with practically no non-quilting space. But I wouldn't say it was over-quilted, which means the quilter did too much; rather a lot was exactly what they meant to do, so it was quilted exactly as it intended, not over quilted.
If you want good odds at a ribbon at an AQS show, enter the hand-quilted bed sized quilt category. They do have hand quilting as a category (both wall hanging and bed sized.) The wall hanging category seems more popular
