Whole Cloth Quilt

 It's not very often that 

I see a 

Whole Cloth Quilt

that has been machine quilted

win a ribbon at 

a Quilt Show.

 Kaufman's Radiance

by Gerri Smit

was beautifully quilted

and won a blue ribbon

in the 

"Other Category"

at the AQG Quilt Show

We've come a long way, baby

I remember the day

(not too many years ago)

listening to heated debates on

whether we should allow machine quilted quilts

 to be judged at quilt shows.

Purists felt that only hand quilted quilts

were were true quilts.

Fortunately those days are gone,

and we now give credit to the 

TALENT

involved in machine quilting.

 The quilting was quite impressive,

but what especially caught my eye 

was Gerri's stunning binding.

 Gerri wrote:

"This whole cloth is made using 

Kaufman Radiance fabric.  

I stitched it with APQS longarm with IQ attached.

The binding was a technique by 

Sharon Schamber."