2017 Darlington Quilt Show

The Darlington Quilt Show was this weekend.  There were over a hundred entries, I entered Something Blue, Whirligigs, and the Pot Holders.  VERY EXCITED to say that Something Blue won the Viewers' Choice Award, so I have a second award winning quilt! (The Harry Potter quilt won in 2013.)  We had a good turnout for the show, the raffle quilt was won by someone in Darlington so it stays local.  AND  the Author Quilt was also taken off the wall in the Darlington Public Library and put on display in the quilt show as well!  So I'm very pleased with the show this year.

Here are MY entries in the quilt show:

 

 

One thing different about the quilt show this year was that we had a quilt appraiser, Sandy Schweitzer, do a "Quilt Walk", where anyone who was interested could walk with her at a scheduled time through the quilt displays, and she would talk about certain quilts that she thought were outstanding, or interesting, or had something to teach us about "the good, the bad, and the ugly" of random quilts on display.  It was all very interesting, and I learned a lot.  She stopped at both Something Blue and Whirligigs on the Quilt Walk and had a little bit to say about each:

     Something Blue--the "style" is very popular in this day and age, and even though the quilt is beautiful, well-constructed, and is challenging to make, it would probably not raise much money in an auction as it can be purchased at a lower cost in many places. You would probably not get your money's worth, not even to cover the cost of materials in making the quilt, to say nothing of your time and effort.  The market has a glut on these kinds of paper-pieced quilts.

     Whirligigs is a "fun" quilt, but hard on the eyes.  "You cannot look at it for too long" because the colors are so bright and the background black offers too much contrast. (bright against bright).  "There is nowhere for the eyes to rest, so they will tend to drift out of the quilt, perhaps to the wall, or a neighboring quilt."  You want to have good contrast, but also something that will bring the eyes INTO the quilt, not out of it,  

Also, neither of these quilts have labels. (bad!)  

That's ok, I still like my quilts!  :)