Exploring Quilt Quest

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Exploring Quilt Quest

• Myrna DuBois Extension Educator

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Plan for Exhibits

• 2005 County Exhibits only
• Use score sheets from Design Decisions
• State Fair Promotional display only
• 2006 State Fair Competition
• Score sheets being developed

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More than Quilting

• Educational Exhibit
• History of quilts
• Styles of quilts
• Preservation of quilts
• Construction
• Textile/fabrics
• Entrepreneurship
• Computerization

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Imaginative Quilt Designs

• 2 or 3 dimensional using other medium
• Wooden blocks
• Jewelry
• Stained glass
• paper

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Photography

• Matted photo of quilt
• Picture story ( steps in quilt making)

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Computer exploration

• Notebook or Poster
• 6 computer generated quilt designs
• 6 computer generated color variations
• Should include information of type of program
  used, process used or how you used color to
  create designs.

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Wearable Art

• Quilted clothing
• Mostly quilted
• Quilting must be done by 4-Her
• Attach explanation of project

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Quilted Accessories

• Table runners
• Placemats
• Toys
• May be 2 or 3 dimensional

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Quilts

• 4-Her must piece, may have some one else quilt
• May machine, hand or tie quilt
• Beginners
• Used squares and rectangles
• More advanced
• Triangles, small pieces
• Premier Quilt Entire quilt is sole work of
  4-Her No tied quilts

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Quilts

• Community Service quilt
• For donation
• Group or individual
• Intergenerational project
• 4-Her and adult or older teen

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Preparing to Judge

• Study new quilt publications and websites
• Update yourself on new techniques
• Update yourself on fabrics and color combinations

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Judging Skills

• Avoid Personal Preferences!!!
• Discuss elements and principles of design.
• Quilts should be labeled
• Name, town, year

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Look for some technical skills

• Pleasing over all look
• Well planned
• Corners of blocks matched
• Seams pressed to one side
• Quilts flat (not wavy)
• Flat binding
• Corners turned neatly
• Supporting information

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Quilt Quest projects should be

• Highly individualistic
• Very Creative
• Judge not by how you do it . . .
• but. . . did the 4-Hers way work.