Where Are All the Pieced Quilts at Shows.....
11-11-2010, 07:30 AM
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Ok I have to say I too appreciate the art type quilts but I don't have any desire to make one and I do think they should not be in any way judged next to "traditional quilts" Like my bud GaiGai says we are comparing Rapsberries and Apples. I would be very sad to see the demise of traditional quilts in quilt shows. That is my first love and I do see a swing in the shows I have been to. I have seen (in Hershey) a hand quilted quilt whose tag said machine quilted and it made me very sad indeed.
11-11-2010, 08:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Hinterland
Maybe the problem is that not enough traditional quilters are entering the shows.
11-11-2010, 09:12 AM
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Okay, lets all make traditional quilts and enter them in the shows, if they are good quality workmenship,pleasent to the eye, everything done correctly,maybe they will be highlighted and win a prize. Start a new wave of excitmentin traditional quilts.
11-11-2010, 09:34 AM
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I don't think that's it. I think we know they're all made with love. I just think that different types of work need different categories for judging. I, too have noticed a trend towards LA'ing and art quilts. There's nothing wrong with them, but I think, for example, there should be different categories for hand-quilted, machine-quilted, LA'd and LA'd with the computer assist (sorry I don't know it's technical name). They're just different skill sets, and should be judged accordingly, IMHO. Same thing with traditionally pieced quilts vs. applique vs. art quilts vs. thread painting.
Well, having just gone to the biggest quilt show in the world, I have to respectfully disagree. There were lots of art quilts, sure, but there were also lots of traditional quilts too. And as I remember it, there were more traditional big winners as "art" quilts. There were a lot of embellished traditional quilts, but they were still pieced.
And there is another thread about prize-winning hand quilted winners at the show.
But some of you sound like my mother who told me that "Quilts that are made by machine aren't made with love like ones made by hand". My response to that was "Well, clothes that are washed in a machine aren't washed with love like clothes that are hand washed and beat on rocks in the river, and you'll NEVER get another quilt from me".
Originally Posted by gaigai
Originally Posted by jljack
....I am starting to wonder if eventually the traditional pieced quilts won't make it into any of the quilt shows. Really, there are so many art quilts and fewer and fewer traditional. Lately all the big prizes, Best of Show, Best Quilting, etc. seem to go to art quilts.
I don't think I am very happy about this trend. And this is just MY opinion!
I don't think I am very happy about this trend. And this is just MY opinion!
And there is another thread about prize-winning hand quilted winners at the show.
But some of you sound like my mother who told me that "Quilts that are made by machine aren't made with love like ones made by hand". My response to that was "Well, clothes that are washed in a machine aren't washed with love like clothes that are hand washed and beat on rocks in the river, and you'll NEVER get another quilt from me".
11-11-2010, 09:35 AM
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I saw many pieced quilts at Paducah last year. Not many won ribbons so weren't posed as much as the ribbon winners. Quilt shows judges seem to be looking for innovative made quilts. Sharon Schamber, the best of show winner in about every show she enters always has a new Wow factor in her quilts. This year the quilt sections were held together with weaved piping. Last year's Best of Show quilt had no pieces at all, just thread used to look like piecing.
11-11-2010, 10:59 AM
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I think some of us have got a little lazy and don't want to hand quilt since the longarm came out. I really congratulate a quilter who has both hand pieced and hand quilted a quilt. As for longarm quilting, some quilts have been quilted to death. Need more appreciation for us hand piecers and hand quilters. I don't really care for some of the art quilts. Some of them look stupid and crazy. Not like grandma use to make.
11-11-2010, 11:01 AM
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I believe that the art quilts are truly amazing, but they are works of art and not really a quilt that would ever be used. So I guess I am saying that art is art and quilts are quilts and not necessarily are they the same thing.
11-11-2010, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by debbieumphress
The Houston Quilt show had tons of embellished and artistic quilts. Although they are beautiful I am old fashioned and would like to see shows with traditional quilting. They are even using Swarvorski chrystals to embellish with now.
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