Originally Posted by
eyes
Wow...I just finished my second small quilt to enter into a show and after your comment I am having second thoughts.
The first time there were 2 older ladies making fun of the quilts no matter who else was standing there. Then they would laugh and run off to the next. My self esteem was -zero after that. And now I feel the same way.
I wonder if the harshness of ladies like you describe turns others away? I can't imagine that such a critic being justified. Would their own quilts make the cut?
I knew one lady who *hired* her quilting done and still entered her quilts in shows as her own work. She was one of the harshest critics I ever knew, but I just considered her skewed sense of right and wrong and let it roll off me like water off a duck's back.