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Posted by Sunny on October 19, 2009, 1:54 pm
I've never put a quilt even into my local guild show where all awards
are viewer choice. You hear all kinds of rude comments at the show,
but this year beat the band. A woman, very chic dresser, came up to a
quilt I was looking at with my friend and she said something along the
lines of "it can't be that hard to learn this quilting part if you
have one of those big machines, can it?" We assured her it requires
years of practice and lessons to be really good. Later we saw her and
a group of very professional, very thin, very Seattle looking women
(no offense, Seattlites, living here we do get some doozies from the
west side) gathered at a gorgeous quilt that obviously took a long
time as it was covered with hand applique and hand quilting and was
just stunning. And this particular woman was going on about
"authenticity" and how "you can just see the humanity in each
imperfect stitch." We just about wanted to yank her perfect hair out
of her perfect head.
LOL. Not really about shows I guess, but can you imagine what kind of
frankly ignorant comments you must hear in Houston?
Sunny
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Posted by Sherry on October 19, 2009, 4:58 pm
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> I've never put a quilt even into my local guild show where all awards
> are viewer choice. You hear all kinds of rude comments at the show,
> but this year beat the band. A woman, very chic dresser, came up to a
> quilt I was looking at with my friend and she said something along the
> lines of "it can't be that hard to learn this quilting part if you
> have one of those big machines, can it?" We assured her it requires
> years of practice and lessons to be really good. Later we saw her and
> a group of very professional, very thin, very Seattle looking women
> (no offense, Seattlites, living here we do get some doozies from the
> west side) gathered at a gorgeous quilt that obviously took a long
> time as it was covered with hand applique and hand quilting and was
> just stunning. And this particular woman was going on about
> "authenticity" and how "you can just see the humanity in each
> imperfect stitch." We just about wanted to yank her perfect hair out
> of her perfect head.
> LOL. Not really about shows I guess, but can you imagine what kind of
> frankly ignorant comments you must hear in Houston?
> Sunny
OMG. What a snotty thing to say.
The group of ladies who were looking at my quilt, one of
them said, "Oh. Look. It's MACHINE QUILTED." The other
said "Pfft. She enters this quilt every year."
I did not. I barely got it finished in time for the show. I never even
entered the baby quilt division before, ever.
Sherry
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Posted by Edna Pearl on October 19, 2009, 6:48 pm
That's awful. Such rudeness at a quilt show! I guess I think of quilting
as a cynosure of civilization.
Did these rude critics even quilt, themselves? It's unthinkable that
anybody who knows what a challenge quilting is would behave this way.
And as for machine quilting -- and you probably already know this --
Hargrave's "Heirloom Machine Quilting" pointed out that a sewing machine was
a status symbol in the nineteenth century, and machine-quilted quilts were
evidence of this prestigous possession and skill. Most quilts of that era
were machine-quilted until the end of the century, when a fad for hand-sewn
and quilted quilts began. So whenever anybody says to Hargrave that
machine-quilted quilts are not "traditional," she says, "Which tradition?"
And Hargrave calls machine-quilting "hand quilting with a machine." More
wordy, but more accurate, too.
ep
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> I've never put a quilt even into my local guild show where all awards
> are viewer choice. You hear all kinds of rude comments at the show,
> but this year beat the band. A woman, very chic dresser, came up to a
> quilt I was looking at with my friend and she said something along the
> lines of "it can't be that hard to learn this quilting part if you
> have one of those big machines, can it?" We assured her it requires
> years of practice and lessons to be really good. Later we saw her and
> a group of very professional, very thin, very Seattle looking women
> (no offense, Seattlites, living here we do get some doozies from the
> west side) gathered at a gorgeous quilt that obviously took a long
> time as it was covered with hand applique and hand quilting and was
> just stunning. And this particular woman was going on about
> "authenticity" and how "you can just see the humanity in each
> imperfect stitch." We just about wanted to yank her perfect hair out
> of her perfect head.
> LOL. Not really about shows I guess, but can you imagine what kind of
> frankly ignorant comments you must hear in Houston?
> Sunny
OMG. What a snotty thing to say.
The group of ladies who were looking at my quilt, one of
them said, "Oh. Look. It's MACHINE QUILTED." The other
said "Pfft. She enters this quilt every year."
I did not. I barely got it finished in time for the show. I never even
entered the baby quilt division before, ever.
Sherry
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Posted by Sandy E on October 20, 2009, 1:30 pm
Howdy!
I'd believe that "many" quilts of that era were machine-quilted,
but not "most". My mom's aunts & their mothers quilted by hand,
having little interest in dragging the machines around for their "bees"
or when "setting down at the end of the day" to do a few more stitches
after supper. The treadles took a lot of work, and many were noisy.
So much of rural America didn't have electricity until the 1930s or
thereafter, so the treadle or hand was the common way to sew,
and that was no "fad". Fewer machine-quilted pieces are found in
antique stores & museums; hand=quilted predominates, in my experience.
Harriet Hargrave has achieved a good reputation and built a good business
in her part of the quilting world. Many of us used Hobbs Heirloom batting
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before they put Harriet's name on the pkg <g>, and many of us did, do, will
handquilt, because we like to handquilt.
As for those who make ignorant remarks at the quilt show: "Where's your
ribbon?" It's like this at any show.
It's funny that this discussion of ribbon-winning always brings several
"I don't quilt for competition" exclamations. Okay, that's fine.
Thank goodness many quilters do compete, and enter shows, so the rest of
us can see, and make comments. ;-)
Cheers!
Ragmop/Sandy
On 10/19/09 5:48 PM, in article hbiqcg$jbk$1@news.eternal-september.org,
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> That's awful. Such rudeness at a quilt show! I guess I think of quilting
> as a cynosure of civilization.
>
> Did these rude critics even quilt, themselves? It's unthinkable that
> anybody who knows what a challenge quilting is would behave this way.
>
> And as for machine quilting -- and you probably already know this --
> Hargrave's "Heirloom Machine Quilting" pointed out that a sewing machine was
> a status symbol in the nineteenth century, and machine-quilted quilts were
> evidence of this prestigous possession and skill. Most quilts of that era
> were machine-quilted until the end of the century, when a fad for hand-sewn
> and quilted quilts began. So whenever anybody says to Hargrave that
> machine-quilted quilts are not "traditional," she says, "Which tradition?"
>
> And Hargrave calls machine-quilting "hand quilting with a machine." More
> wordy, but more accurate, too.
>
> ep
>
>
>> I've never put a quilt even into my local guild show where all awards
>> are viewer choice. You hear all kinds of rude comments at the show,
>> but this year beat the band. A woman, very chic dresser, came up to a
>> quilt I was looking at with my friend and she said something along the
>> lines of "it can't be that hard to learn this quilting part if you
>> have one of those big machines, can it?" We assured her it requires
>> years of practice and lessons to be really good. Later we saw her and
>> a group of very professional, very thin, very Seattle looking women
>> (no offense, Seattlites, living here we do get some doozies from the
>> west side) gathered at a gorgeous quilt that obviously took a long
>> time as it was covered with hand applique and hand quilting and was
>> just stunning. And this particular woman was going on about
>> "authenticity" and how "you can just see the humanity in each
>> imperfect stitch." We just about wanted to yank her perfect hair out
>> of her perfect head.
>>
>> LOL. Not really about shows I guess, but can you imagine what kind of
>> frankly ignorant comments you must hear in Houston?
>>
>> Sunny
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Posted by Polly Esther on October 19, 2009, 6:51 pm
Sherry! Really? REALLY? We're proud you didn't get arrested for
assault (although we certainly would have been happy to bail you out of
jail.)
What a shame that Kate Dicey and I were not there with you. Both of us
are quite famous for being able to put the Look on someone or an entire
class room and cause them to totally wilt.
We simply must teach you how. Polly
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"Sherry" <wrote, in part> The group of ladies who were looking at my quilt,
one of
them said, "Oh. Look. It's MACHINE QUILTED." The other
said "Pfft. She enters this quilt every year."
I did not. I barely got it finished in time for the show. I never even
entered the baby quilt division before, ever.
Sherry
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> are viewer choice. You hear all kinds of rude comments at the show,
> but this year beat the band. A woman, very chic dresser, came up to a
> quilt I was looking at with my friend and she said something along the
> lines of "it can't be that hard to learn this quilting part if you
> have one of those big machines, can it?" We assured her it requires
> years of practice and lessons to be really good. Later we saw her and
> a group of very professional, very thin, very Seattle looking women
> (no offense, Seattlites, living here we do get some doozies from the
> west side) gathered at a gorgeous quilt that obviously took a long
> time as it was covered with hand applique and hand quilting and was
> just stunning. And this particular woman was going on about
> "authenticity" and how "you can just see the humanity in each
> imperfect stitch." We just about wanted to yank her perfect hair out
> of her perfect head.
> LOL. Not really about shows I guess, but can you imagine what kind of
> frankly ignorant comments you must hear in Houston?
> Sunny