Originally Posted by
sewbizgirl
Oh... sad you gave up! I'm sure you have many wonderful quilts that others would love to see. Don't enter to win first place, enter to share your work and inspire others.
I agree with this statement too. It made me feel sad. I'm a new quilter, with only one pieced quilt completed so far, and one done with my embroidery machine. I don't know if I have the guts to enter anything in a show at this point, but I've attended a couple of quilt shows, and I loved looking at the different variations quilters have completed, and the creativity that they demonstrate. I haven't necessarily found that the show winner was a quilt that I particularly liked either, from a personal perspective. I think of quilting as a form of art, and art appreciation is very personal IMHO.