Quilt Kit -- Is That Cheating?

You've got it exactly right, Sherry. Do add the information about the pattern and such. I think it's rather pretentious to enter a quilt as if it were entirely original. In fact, I doubt that there is a quilt that wasn't inspired by many things. Usually I fall in love with at least one quilt show entry and want to know all the details. When someone sees your creation, I'm betting there's another granny (or hopeful) that will just have to make a Hungry too. Polly

"Sherry" I just finished a kit purchased from an online quilt shop, that

If the quilt show rules don't ban kit quilts, it should be okay. Please do give credit to the kitters and pattern makers.

Julia > I just finished a kit purchased from an online quilt shop, that

Oh Roberta! I know you've been longing - but they've only just got married >gAs long as you give proper credit, it shouldn't be a problem.

Read the show rules. Some allow kit quilts, others do not.

If the show allows kits, feel free to enter it, but also give credit where it's due. It can be as simple as "the top is a kit from XYZ quilts based on a Fons and Porter pattern."

HTH!

Sherry, you have far more faith in your daughter than I do in my sons. I could make a mountain of quilts waiting for those two to present me with grandchildren. Nonetheless, I want to see photos, including details of your hand quilting. If I'm properly motivated, I just might make one for my "faith chest" (stopped being "hope" many years ago) too. Besides, my son was also raised on "Hungry Caterpillar" and it might work some magic.

Sunny

I am not holding my breath for grand kids. Last month I mentioned giving one of the interloping stray cats hanging around to ds. His response was he can barely take care of himself and he'd kill a plant if I gave it to him. He works a mess of overtime and is pretty much absorbed with work. My needing grand kids doesn't override that the kids are not ready yet. :( DD isn't giving much hope at this point either. It could be a long wait though. They are 24 and almost 26 yo here. I feel your pain sunny. I am enjoying the grand nieces and nephews as much as I can. Darned there are a mess of those sweeties! Taria

Sunny wrote:

WE are gonna have to get our 4 kids together.......

Butterfly (DS 32, DD 30...neither have a 'steady')

AAAAACCCKKKKKKKK! He just goes off vacation Monday. RATS! Send her here next month...we even have a futon she can sleep on so she wouldn't have to stay at a hotel. SIL shows up for a few weeks (3/4?) on Monday so she'll have to wait. Our weather is beautiful, peas are still growing in the garden. Picked the 'mater's and they're ripening on the counter (Predicted frost so we picked them) May even have a place for her to 'hire on' depending on her line of work.

Butterfly (not too well a Matchmaker)

Give 'em time... DS & DDIL were 29 when they told us we were going to be grandparents. And DD was 33 & DSIL 32 when their daughter was born.

Julia > I am not holding my breath for grand kids. Last month I mentioned

Thanks for giving me hope Julia. After reading Kathyl's wedding saga maybe I should thank the kids for being slow in the marrying- baby making mode. Taria

Julia > Give 'em time... DS & DDIL were 29 when they told us we were going to be

Well, at least I'm one step closer to the grandparent age now that both kids have gotten married. Yeah....I know, I know....you don't need a wedding to be a grandparent. But I'm still glad that hurdle was jumped first! At DD's shower we had a Qand!A for the bride. She was asked what the best thing about being married to D would be....she said "making babies!". Then she turned beet red!

If we're going to have a contest here, I win hands down. DD#1 was married for the 1st time at the tender age of 42. She waited until Mr. Right came along - and along he came - with 6 grandchildren. You just never saw a happier grandmother or Authority on child-raising. Isn't life fun? Polly

That's a pretty cool way to get a ready made family! We seem to be the only ones of our generation on either side of the family that seem to be contributing to producing grandchildren, I have a cousin that is married (but we heard they might be separating), DH doesn't even have any married cousins or siblings and a lot of them are older now then when we had our first two kids! The irony is, we're the ones that live far away from home, I really never planned it that way, though it's funny how things go through the generations, my grandparents lived in Fiji when I was a kid (we lived in the UK) and now we've ended up in the US, with a third on the way, this is definitely not what I imagined life would be like and I know my parents miss the kids like crazy.

Cheers Anne

Perfectly OK. Quilt shows are for sharing. If it is judged or juried, I would give credit to the pattern designer. I personally think crediting the quilt shop that cut the fabric is a bit much, but it's great free advertising for them. So why not?

Quilting is a shared art, much like dancing or music or architecture. Like a bassoonist or a violinist, we often work with people whom we never meet or even know their name. A composer writes a libretto, an artisan crafts an instrument, a conductor drives the arrangement, a teacher teaches the skill, even the architect of the much hall has a part in the sound. But it is the artist playing the instrument that brings it all together.

Likewise, a quilter is an artist playing an instrument to produce art. Few of us do it all ourselves. There are those who plant and harvest the cotton, run the mills, weave the fabric, formulate the dyes, design the prints, market the fabrics, etc., just to get it to the LQS. Even when I dyed my own fabric, the dyes were purchased commercially and I didn't weave the fabric or spin the thread. The Kaufmann PFD definitely gave a different effect from the Ronloc, even with the same dye formula. Silk came out differently from cotton. It was the choices I made as Artist that made all the difference.

As quilters, we are not like the sole solitary sculptor chipping away at the marble or the lonely writer stringing words together to create emotions. Rather, we are participatory artists channeling the work of others to create the shared art of quiltmaking. Share proudly!

OK, it's 4 a.m. I think I should go back to bed....

Luv, anth> I just finished a kit purchased from an online quilt shop, that