Originally Posted by
Barb2018
I’m torn between two comments I received.
1) Oh look, how unique, I never would have thought to put those colors together.
2) You’ve only been quilting a couple of years; you shouldn’t even think of entering a quilt into a competition, even if it is just a county fair.
I often marvel at how creatively colors are used in quilts, colors that I would never think to put together only because I haven't had the capacity to imagine them together. If I've said to someone that I wouldn't have thought to put those colors together I hope they didn't take it as a negative, because it was meant as a compliment.
I don't think I've ever run into the quilt police. All of the quilters I've met have been generous with their help and kind with their comments.
I did hear a woman at a quilt show saying dismissively to her companion that the quilt they were looking at was just machine work. It was very densely and beautifully hand quilted.