Originally Posted by Dodie
I never enter quilt shows anymore for that reason Imay have the wrong idea but I think the catagorys are all wrong there should be a place for the hand quilters as well as the people who quilt their own I do all my own work or otherwise I do not feel it would totaly be my quilt so I do my thing and forget the quilt shows that is even the fairs
sorry my idea Dodie
Dodie,
The quilt show we have here has such designations and thank goodness they do. If I were to enter a machine pieced, hand quilted quilt, it will NOT compete with a machine pieced, professionally quilted quilt. Nor will it compete with any quilt that is machine quilted - they have their own categories but the hand quilting categories are very few as there are very few of us in the guild. In fact when I moved here 4 years ago, I met several hand quilters who were turned away because they weren't prolific enough. I was lucky enough to get into a chapter 2 years ago and now we are up to 8 hand quilters in my chapter as the other ladies decided that if I'm brave enough to admit to hand quilting, they would too and it's been fun to see.
Hugs
Patty