The local quilt show was held this past Friday and Saturday. I try to attend every year, but last year I wasn't able to due to a flare up with my back. This year, I attended on Friday afternoon.
Here are some pictures of the quilts that really "grabbed" my attention:
But THIS ONE....this one got my vote for "People's Choice"...
Now...here are three quilts from patterns that I have done myself...
Bonnie Hunter's Easy Street:
their version...
look...it even won a ribbon...
my version...
...mine's not quilted yet...and I don't have a ribbon for it. :(
Stars Over the Prairie:
their version...
my version...
Carpenter's Star:
their version...
my version...
I always commiserate that there are so few hand-quilted quilts entered into the quilt shows these days, but I have to be honest that I have NEVER entered one of my own hand-quilted quilts into a show. Mostly because I give mine away and never have one available to enter, but also because I'm just afraid of being judged on my hand quilting, ie, stitches not even, etc. Maybe, one of these days, I'll have a quilt to enter and just see what comments the judges have for me. Maybe...
Loretta
I bet you would get a ribbon; you make very nice quilts (says a proud owner/niece). BUT I know how it is when the item that took less work can win over your item. Like when a cross-stitch with less than 10 colors thread and no embelishing stitches can win first even though yours has shading, back-stitch, lazy daisy, and french knots. But that's all hypothitical, of course.
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