I attended the NQA Show in Columbus, Ohio on Thursday. It was a great show this year with lots of Wow Quilts and some that just stole my heart with their whimsy and beauty. But as I went through the show, I realized that some of the amazing quilting was done by computerized machines--everything from the center embroidery pieces to the actual quilting itself. It takes a skill set to be able to manipulate computerized machines and have the quilting and designs come together appropriately to make a great quilt -- it also may take a machine which costs anywhere from $2000 for a good embroidery machine to $30,000 for a computerized quilting machine. That certainly limits the number of people who can compete at that level.
Now I am not a techno phobe; but I do think machine quilting has advanced to the point that there need to be categories: Computerized Quilting, Longarm Quilting, Short Arm Quilting, and Home Machine Quilting. Also if a Master Quilt is a totally computerized design, who is the Master, the human being or the computer?
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