Masterpiece quilt at NQA show

Just to clear up the air a bit about Sharon Schamber's quilt, there were two separate and different judgings of that quilt. It was entered into the show and was judged along with all the other quilts by the panel of 3 quilt judges. It was also judged extensively by a panel of 5 different quilt judges in a special judging that took over 2 hours. Show quilts only get 3 minutes per quilt (figure it out yourself---a show with over 400 quilts at 3 minutes per quilt adds up to a lot of time, no time for more time per entry).

In the show it was competing against all the other entries in the same category, and it won out. There was no competition against another entry in the Masterpiece judging. Some categories in the show had extremely stiff competition, and the category in which this quilt appeared was one of them. It took a lot of design difficulty, well executed, to come even close to the top prize winners.

To make it absolutely clear----neither of the two panels of judges that judged this quilt had any common communication about this quilt. They were entirely separate judgings.

Linda, the Serial Quilter from Oxford, Ohio