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Posted by Patti on October 19, 2009, 2:56 am
I take your point, Sunny; but try looking at it this way: someone (at
the level you mention) thinks of a great new idea, works on it and finds
it works well and produces a wonderful quilt. What does he/she want to
do - show the world.
I really think that some of them don't look on it, primarily, as a
competition as such, but as a place to aspire to and then, when they
have won, of course, it might then become a challenge?
If they didn't show their wonderful work, boundaries wouldn't be pushed
(not that I'm a great one for pushing boundaries, as you know, but I
suppose it has to be done!), and their work would be secreted in some
dark room somewhere that no-one could visit.
Interestingly, one of the ladies who won prizes several years running at
the Quilts UK show hasn't been in evidence for a couple of years now? I
wonder if she thought as you did and stopped entering?
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>Am I the only one who sort of wonders why the "giants" of the quilting
>world are still competing, still sort of soaking up the top spots in
>the big competitions? I mean, I'm seeing names on the winners' list
>(and truly amazing art that just knocks my socks off) who I consider
>in a league of their own; they'll be written up in art history books
>Sunny
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Best Regards
pat on the hill
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Posted by Sally Swindells on October 19, 2009, 7:34 am
Of course I saw them - and cheered!!
Phillippa Naylor is coming to Quilters Haven in 2011 so am saving
pennies hard and practising what little mc I know!
Its Chilford at the beginning of November and I've already got my ticket
(to avoid the queues. Not quite on the Houston level, but definitely
above mine! Now have to convince DH that I really can occupy myself
there for longer than 3 hours while he takes himself off birdwatching or
into Cambridge and bookshops and museums! Its ages since I had a quilty
shop for anything other than basics and I want really long look at
everything - or should I say at least three looks at everything! And
then of course there are quilts to see....... Three hours - fiddle!!
Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sallyattheseaside/
Patti wrote:
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> Hope you saw the Brits, Sally!!
> Liz Jones,2) just 20 miles from me! - and Phillippa Naylor. I've taken
> a lesson from Phillippa and Sandy Foster was having one at Houston with
> her. She won one of the quilting prizes.
>
> I'll have to look again to see if there were any more mentioned. Some
> amazing work on that site - quite stunning collection.
> .
>> Wow!!!
>> http://www.quilts.com/fqf09/enVivo/
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>world are still competing, still sort of soaking up the top spots in
>the big competitions? I mean, I'm seeing names on the winners' list
>(and truly amazing art that just knocks my socks off) who I consider
>in a league of their own; they'll be written up in art history books
>Sunny