Regardless of anyone’s opinion I am not trying to engage in a “put down”. I am expressing my opinion. There are some givens in that all machine quilters have to load a quilt carefully, remove stitches at times, deal with tension issues etc. Many quilters do charity quilts. Many quilters can rival computer-aided quilters in their expertise and vice a versa.
Many of the comments in this thread are from people defending their use of computers, am I supposed to interpret that as a put down of me?
An acquaintance of mine bought a longarm with Statler Stitcher about 6 months after I purchased my longarm. She and I had a few discussions about this as I have always maintained that I wanted to “master” this on my own and didn’t want a computerized system. I know she was quilting for others and doing a good job within 2 weeks of setting up her system. Reading machine quilting forums it is obvious that some people start without a computer then later added it.
All three of the above scenarios are people who love quilting and produce quality work. So leaving out any feelings of being “put down” do you who own a computerized system feel that your work should be judged in shows as a separate category such as “computer-aided” or not?