Judging...

I, along with 2 other ladies, was asked to judge some quilts from another quilt guild. Can I just tell you that I don't like to judge. Sometimes people's choices of fabric and design get in the way of judging the actual work. I like to quilt as a hobby and purposely have never entered anything I have made in an environment where they would be judged. When you invest some good time into anything you have made,and you feel you have done your very best work, it is hard when people pick it apart. For that reason, I hate to judge.

I just want to mention that one problem area that was dominant in all of the judging was binding....Ladies, if you do not know how to do a good binding, go to the experts and get help until you do a good binding. Most of the quilts that we judged, the binding was awful. When you go to all the trouble of piecing, hand quilting or machine quilting, you have invested a lot of time. Don't be in a hurry to machine stitch down your binding instead of hand tacking it down--it takes away from all your hard work....Enough of my soapbox...here are the quilts that were judged. I did not make any of them....Enjoy....

I do have to mention that I am a sucker for anything embroidered...