Quilting for Comfort or Quilting for Judges
It was interesting to read what "Sally" posted about the 1,000 hours of QTD work that went into the latest winner at the biggie quilt shows. One thousand hours. Sixty thousand minutes. Almost forty-two days. Standing at her long arm quilting machine for forty-two days straight, a veritable stitching marathon. Hmmmmmmm. Ms. Schamber is awarded big cash prizes and fame for what I considered obsessive-compulsive work when it was done by my DSIL. (Okay, the baby quilts done by my DSIL were not works of art but she quilted 'way beyond what was reasonable for the space available. And I thought she was a bit crazy for overdoing something ....)
The national show judges obviously like the results of this type of overkill and that is their prerogative. I suppose a person like myself who makes quilts to give to people as gifts to snuggle will never grasp the appeal of a quilt that could give a person varicose veins while she stood by her machine that long to quilt it. :-)
Just as there are hand quilters and there are machine quilters now there are QTD quilters as well. LOL
Judy
The national show judges obviously like the results of this type of overkill and that is their prerogative. I suppose a person like myself who makes quilts to give to people as gifts to snuggle will never grasp the appeal of a quilt that could give a person varicose veins while she stood by her machine that long to quilt it. :-)
Just as there are hand quilters and there are machine quilters now there are QTD quilters as well. LOL
Judy
posted by Judy in Ohio @ 8:27 AM
2 Comments:
At July 20, 2007 at 12:07 PM ,
Doris W. in TN said...
"---The national show judges obviously like the results of this type of overkill and that is their prerogative.---"
ITA. More and more this is turning into fiber/textile art and I have to look at it as such. It all makes me want to make more and more "traditional" type, old fashioned quilts. I'm even thinking of hand quilting something again. :-o
At July 20, 2007 at 4:08 PM ,
Judy in Ohio said...
Doris, some of us could think of ourselves as a NQTD movement, quilters who are resolved to stick to a program of "Not-Quilted-To-Death" ... this would include hand or machine quilted quilts that have open space for "poofiness" or air pockets or breathing room for flexibility in the finished quilt. I'm not referring to trapunto bubbles, I'm just thinking of the open spaces like those that were left by our grandmas.
When did it become necessary to fill every square inch of surface? That's almost Victorian in thinking ....
Judy
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