mariposa gal

I have much, much better things to do.

MaryMo

Quilt police are not worth my time. I've left a couple of guilds because they were too many present. I'm critical enough of my stitching, don't need anyone setting themselves up as "experts" doing the same.

k9dancer

I drive the QP nuts by purposely making my binding a different size on each side of the quilt. Per my choice, I will often make a wider binding on the back. It's two different quilts, and it's a design choice IMHO.
Now as a teacher, I do tell my students about Arkansas rules: strange quilt laws that I've only heard of here, so they are prepared if they enter shows.
Other than that, I tell them that I am the QP and can be easily bribed with chocolate!
I've been quilting for many years, and have yet to make a 'perfect' quilt. And, I believe there's more than one way to do everything.

TanyaL

I have a theory that the quilt police are the ones that the UFOs abducted and inserted chips into their brains. Nothing else would explain their strange obsession with scant 1/4" seams, finger pressing, etc. The ones that demand only hand quilting have been abducted twice, I think. Poor dears.

Bluelady

I sew my binding on the back first then machine stitch it down on the front, sometimes using a decorative stitch and sometimes just a straight stitch. I guess that would annoy them!

Greenheron

UFOs are alive?! Finish them quick before they come for all of us.

akisan

Never thought of it.

quiltingme

Quilt police better not come around here....who died and left them in charge anyway?

Sierra

Several years ago I entered for the first time a quilt I had made. It was one" squares and they were configured into a red and blue yin yang with yellow "energy" coming off. It was for a little boy and as the red and blue squares left the main symbols they began having little pictures on them (bugs, Big Red, butterflys, etc.). The only comment I got was that my quilt was not properly squared! Boy, was I deflated. I hadn't expected a prize or anything, but to have one negative comment for over 1600 squares in a design.... sigh..... It was one of my first quilts.

bearisgray

To me, there is a difference between constructive suggestions and negative criticism.

Do I TRY to annoy people? Generally, No -


I've learned to be careful with the following words: always, never, all, every, none - those exceptions keep turning up!