I have never let the quilt police bother me. They are not worth my time to bother with. Best thing is to ignore them to their face. Works every time.

I posted a quilt here once I was told of a mistake at the top of the quilt. I honestly could not see it, but my reply was "Our son will not care; he will love the quilt made for him by his Mother and given in love to him!"

I have been told that God is perfect and every quilt must be humbly made with a mistake or two. Guess mine are very humble and well loved and treasured by friends and family members. And they are used, that's the best complement to me.

I have recently joined two guilds and haven't come across any active quilt police yet.

[QUOTE=DeltaMS;8038889]I heard this one just the other day, when i told someone, I buy some of my fabrics from Joann's and Hobby Lobby..."Don't you know their fabric is not as good as the fabric you buy from a high end quilt shop?"

I do buy that high-end fabric, but from a thrift store where someone overspent and let it lay idle. In fact, I have an ample supply of fabric from that source. I often get lovely fabric from WalMart, same fabric I have seen in those high-end stores, but a better price at WalMart.

I have been part of a group sewing on a raffle quilt where at least two of those experts have pushed me to "do it like this" and hurry. More than once I have been handed what one of those experts stitched together, and asked to rip it out and re-sew, or asked if I can make the block "fit" because it had been stretched out of shape as it was sewn. The self-made expert once grabbed the white background pieces and stitched them using black thread and stitches so small that the seams were gathered.

I recall when Hari Walner was making waves and shaking up the experts with her beautiful machine quilting of designs that here-to-fore had been done by hand. At that time quilt show judges were dismissing any machine quilting.

Oh, well, I grew up going to town in a mule drawn wagon, then to clutch on the left and gearshift on the floor. I am still shoving that clutch in when I come up to a stop. Some of us just never change or do so reluctantly. Do your own thing, but do it well, and discount any criticism as just a personal preference of that person.

One thing I love about the computer is typing in remarks, then deleting them if I feel they were too strong. This time, I think I will leave them in.

I am a member of four guilds. One has many founding members still in attendance and they can be prickly about what they think makes a quilt. I take a quilt in and say okay ladies what's wrong with it? One of them will find something! I get a kick out of it. This way I don't get unwanted opinions from them and they think I'm a sweetheart. LOL Now strangers? Ignore them.

i have learned:

one can hardly ever please everyone all the time

very few things are absolutely perfect

some comments seem to be "uninformed" and one should consider the source

i have made comments out loud in the past that i probably would keep to myself now.

It reminds me of the song by Mama Cass Elliot - Make Your Own Kind of Music.

The ones I hate are those who just look at your work, give a pained and patronising smile and walk away!

HettyB

Well said bearisgray!

What’s Quilt Police? Not in my sewing room, sorry my sewing my quilting, if you don’t like it, the door is always open ;)