Quilt show everything but DMQ
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Quilt show everything but DMQ
Went to a quilt show, seen beautiful quilts, some hand quilted, some long arm quilted. Only one done by DM. Just curious, do they show quilts quilted by DM? Is there a category for this? What is the standard? I think many times they are just as beautiful and I may want to enter one sometime.
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I just found out it means domestic machine (or your sewing machine). There is a lady in my guild who consistently wins top prizes for her quilts - she sews them and quilts them on her Bernina sewing machine- it is an older model so doesn't even have a big throat area. She is amazing!
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The quilt shows I am familiar with have different categories for machine quilted vs hand-quilted. Also categories for quilts done by more than one person (ex. pieced by 1 person and quilted by another). They did not diferentiate between quilting by long arm or domestic sewing machine.
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I just found out it means domestic machine (or your sewing machine). There is a lady in my guild who consistently wins top prizes for her quilts - she sews them and quilts them on her Bernina sewing machine- it is an older model so doesn't even have a big throat area. She is amazing!
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2 years ago was at a quilt show and a lady was very disappointed to see so many (nearly all) done by Laq. It was true many had we found only 1 had been hand quilted. It was the first time I noticed how hand quilting is becoming a love of the few and for some reason they also don't put in shows .
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I guess I too,was disappointed the ones I seen was mostly done by LA. A few hand quilted which I stand in awe of ! I may have to entered a couple of my dm quilts one day. Maybe start a trend I have seen some beautiful DM quilting and would like to see more of it in the shows as well as the others.
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So many people now have a mid or longarm that these quilts are getting more common. Most shows still have categories for hand appliqué, hand quilting, machine pieced/appliqued and DM machine quilted AND machine pieced professionally long arm quilted. A professional long armer is anyone who is paid to quilt for others but there are people who own their own long arm and are not professional. How many quilts have you seen hand appliqued and hand quilted? Most quilters have so many ideas and quilts they want to do that a long armer is a way to check some off the bucket list.
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