I agree it was a waste of time and I would have gone home with you too! And I laugh because I can hear my Mom say " some peoples children". LOL (of course it was me she was usually talking about)

I quit my local quilt guild over a pretty similar concept (well, actually it was a racist rant one member had gone on that I was having no part of). My thinking was like yours... life is too short. Do I miss being in the guild? Well, I miss being in "a" guild but not this one. I'm not from here & have lived numerous places & belonged to numerous guilds so I know there are good ones out there. But experiences like that really leave a bad taste in your mouth, don't they?

And just as an aside, I think a quilter is anyone who makes a top... period. I hate when people get their panties all in a twist over defining somebody else. Grrrrrrrrrrr!

Like my mom used to say "If they can't run it, they want to ruin it". Ain't dat da troof?

oh i swore i would always complete my quilts myself. then i had two done for me and it was just fine!!! so yes you are a "quilter" even if someone else does the design quilting for you.

I love this board, I have been sewing since I was about 9, started quilting when I was about 25, I have sewn many tops, and even quilted quite a few, but, because it is often easier and less expensive to send my tops to a local longarm quilter because i want the receipient to feel comfortable washing it, according to my LAquilter, she feels that we do all of the work, and they just sandwich it together using our ideas, I still quilt the occasional by hand, but not if I feel the quilt will be washed very often, and I can't afford to buy my own machine

Jacquie, I love binding too!
peace