Hey - another one. I had the motorized scopes and am now having fun with a 120ST and an alt-az mount.
You're right about the beauty. Overhead and underground. (I like Geology, too) If it wasn't for the prism used to analyze color from starlight, we wouldn't have all these shades and stuff advanced by technology. There's beauty in every quilt - regardless of how it's done. The quilt using the ugliest fabrics and rather rough might have its beauty in the story behind it. Or the beauty of someone trying to teach themselves without any guidance. The fact that they persevered is beauty.

if you counted all the people here that would of gone home with you , You'll have a real crowded home. but I bet we all would have fun. LOL ..... I believe that we just use more up to date tools for this art form. But no matter what your preference is for working it it still is quilting. Here is another one I have heard people argue about:
That embroidery isn't really embroirdery if you do it by machine. What else can it be for petes sake?

Seriously, I'd probably have stayed, listening and giggling at them.

I have to add this one...the long arm quilters who say I am not really a quilter because my long arm is computerized.

Some people need to know they are entitled to their opinion but the rest of the world has the option to disagree with their opinion as well. Good for you going home to quilt. We also have the right to not listen to this heated discussion and find something better to do.

"Cackling hens" - LOL!! Seriously, I agree with you - I do my best work and am most content at home in my own little quilting studio doing my own thing. There's noone but me in that studio and I am a quilter, even if I only piece the tops. And someone should just ask those cackling hens just what they would be doing if we didn't piece those quilt tops for them to quilt.... ho hum... life's too short for that kind of argument...

I'd rather quilt than fight. To each her own! Does the fact that my ancesters didn't use a rotary cutter make me a non-quilter because I do? I think not! I would have been out of the door with you!

Wow I think I would have just laughed and walked away. There is so much more in this world to worry about especially where on earth am I going to store all the fabric I keep buying for all those quilt ideas in my head!! Happy quilting

Life is short. You left and that is the right decision. We are all quilters of either fabric or life. We put fabric together either by piecing, applique or putting layers together. We also put our and others lives together. Quilters we all are and appreciate everyone of them.

I am so sick of some people thinking they are better than others. You are a quilter if you make a quilt, period. The top is the quilt. If you send it to someone to longarm, so be it. That is your choice, no better no less. Your choice, at least the quilt gets quilted.
I was told by a guild leader that the quilt I was working on wasn't a real quilt because it was a quilt as you go and I sewed it together on my serger. I don't belong to the guild any longer.
Glad you left.