I have longarmed for someone who entered the county fair before, she made sure she was judged only on her piecing.

Like they say.....Every quilt tells a story. My labels ALWAYS tell the WHOLE story of who pieced it and who proudly quilted it.....me!

Great come-back about the power tools, and how true.:thumbup: Too bad you didn't actually say it to him but maybe next time!:D I love to go to Quilt Shows to admire all the amazing and beautiful work people have done, and have never really thought about if it was done by one or two people. But now I'll be looking at that too! I think as long as they have different catagories and specify how it was done, no problem. But people who don't have the resources to hire a quilter or prefer to do it all themselves, start to finish, should also be recognized for their beautiful work and effort. I agree with those who said it's all art in many different forms.

Hey--How about a computerized quilting machine that you set up press a button and sit back and watch the machine quilt?? I know of a Quilt Show that this one wins wins wins Blue ribbons just because the machine does it by itself--I really don't think that kind of computerized machine quilting should be entered into a quilt show to compete against those that do their own but the gal Always wins no matter what or who. I really don't think Professional Machine Quilting like that should be there in an amature show. It is really a biased show. If you are a LQ atleast you are doing the quilting.

When I submitted my quilt at the fair, I put quilt by me and quilted by the longarmer lady. I still got a red one and my friend got credit.

I don't go to a lot of shows, but usually what I've seen is
Pieced by Susie Smith
Machine quilted (or hand quilted) by Janie Jones.

As long as she didn't claim to have done all the work, I see no problem.

Sing it louder, Soccertaxi! One woman at our church has taken so much pleasure out to the last couple quilts we did because they are quilted by a LAQ. I've got one more for this year-----------then I am done. DONE! The "my mother would never........." woman can do as she pleases from then on.

Thanks so much for the clarification on entry of quilts. I am very interested in entering a quilt I am working on in the fair...but I fully intend on sending it out to a quilted. It is a large quilt and I do not have the room to do a king size on my machine. Thanks again for all the helpful information.

Now about my use of the word cheating.....this has oviously hit a nerve with some people. I would like to apologize
I did not mean any harm or hurt for this remark. I have learned a lesson with this post for sure. I have learned alot from this board and love to read it everyday, but I will truely think twice before posting a question again.

That is sad, the same type of thing happened to my friend's beautiful well made quilt judged last year at our fair, she has shown quilts for several years and has always place 1st or 2nd place. 1st time over the years had I even seen any craft (all sewing) items where this was done, yes notice it in all sewing classes where there were disqualification! Plus it wasn't only quilts at this fair where they disqualifed only in the quilting...I'm thinking it's was the judge/judges they hired. Hopefully this years fair they won't hire the same ones to judge. I think what got me the most about those disqualifaction was some of those entries are done by the 4-Hers they do their best and they own animals which they show at the fair!!!

I would go ahead and enter you yo yo quilt, maybe they hired the same judge/judges that judge here...

In my county fair quilt contests there is a specific category for "professional" quilted. Just like there is hand quilted, machine quilted, etc. That was only added last year, as far as I know. Maybe because it's so much more common now.