kountrykreation

Your quilt is absolutely gorgeous and definitely, please do not take any 'judging' comments to seriously. As a previous poster mentioned, with experience of years of showing animals in fairs while growing up, it was not uncommon to show an animal under one judge one day and win overall grand, just to have the same animal the following day, under a different judge, get sifted. Until the process of 'judging' can remove 'human' aspect of judging (ie, personal preferences, etc), it will always just be a crap shoot. I'd suggest showing the same quilt in another show with a different judge and then compare notes.

MarthaT

It's a beautiful quilt and I'm sure that there were many who attended the show that enjoyed looking at it and can't find any more un-straight lines than we did. Thank you for taking the risk of criticism to share it with the others that attended the show. I know if you could hear all the positive comments of those attending you would be encouraged.

emlee51

Wow! Gorgeous quilt...love the colors...you have my vote!!! Can't see a thing wrong with it...only that it's not at my house...lol!!!

Latrinka

That is a gorgeous quilt! Looks perfect to me! Judges are tooo picky!

ghostrider

That's odd, in my experience judges always give a 'room to grow' comment. That's why most of us enter judged shows to begin with...to get the critique. You cannot improve if all you get is praise.

"Straight lines should be straight" is not at all the comment of an 'elitist snob', and furthermore the judge took the time to explain what area he/she was referring to. It is standard wording meant to help the quilter improve her workmanship...as she is clearly trying to do by seeking more information from us. Nowhere does the OP express resentment, anger, or discouragement over the comment, specifically saying she is not upset by it and would only like clarification on it's meaning.

Wanabee Quiltin

Beautiful quilt. Looks 'straight' to me. Wonder what the judges meant ?

BeckySt

I'm not 100% sure but I think the lattice is the black strips attached to the green cornerstones. I think your quilt is gorgeous and don't notice a thing. I know some ladies who enter quilts in our local fair, and some of the judges are nit picky and others are great it depends on the year.

SandyQuilter

As a long-time judge, and without a photo, I would guess that your fabric widths are not the same width. For instance, do they measure a wobbly 2.5 inches? If it's supposed to be 2.25 inches, it must be that. Watch your seam widths when cutting and stitching. If the comments refer to quilting lines, whether hand or machine, they must be straight. The comments would not be about grain line, but your cutting, stitching, width evenness.

Lay a ruler along your sashing to see if the widths are exactly the same throughout. If not, figure out the problem and make corrections on your next quilt top.
Best of luck,
SandyQuilter

Holice

From a Judge. The statement means that any long seam - be it sashing or just straight line of blocks sewedtohether should be straight. Pictures might not show correctly but it appears that the 4th row from the bottom, the one long in the center just at the top of the white card on the right bows a bit and does not appear straight.
Now before anyone says - "it looks ok to me" or "what are the judges talking about", remember that the quilt is in competition with others and if one quilt has all long lines of sewing that are straight and one is not,......then which one gets the ribbon.....If you had a company put new tile on the kitchen floor - would you want them straight or some slightly bowed.......same in quilting.

Karen's Kreations

That quilt is gorgeous!