Lecture at the Show—What the Judge Sees
$15.00
Lecture at the Show—What the Judge Sees by Professional Quilt Judge Sandy Gard
Thursday, September 26, 2024, from 10:00 to 11:00 am in the east lecture hall
• Attendees should bring paper and a pen/pencil to take notes.
• Summary – Sandy will provide insight into what quilt show judges look for when judging quilts. Sandy will break down key elements that the judges evaluate. This lecture will provide insights to use when making your next quilt. Does the quilt hang straight, or does it have a wave? Is the binding even and smooth? Is the quilt square? Are block and/or strip sizes uniform? Are the quilting stitches even and uniform? She’ll elaborate on these and other points in the evaluation process.
• Takeaway – attendees will be able to list key elements a judge looks for and use that knowledge to improve their quilting.
About Our Show Judge
Sandy Gard, a NACQJ-certified judge from Oklahoma, is the 2024 OPQG Quilt Show judge.
• Sandy Gard is a self-taught seamstress and quilter who started sewing at age 6. Her lifelong love affair with quilting began at her grandmother’s farm house in Texas, when all the neighbors gathered, lowered the quilting frame from the living room ceiling, and sat around the quilt, quilting and visiting.
• Sandy has had a home-based sewing business for 21 years, and in 2007, Sandy became a long-arm quilter. In 2014, Sandy entered the NQA Judging program. She has spent four years working with certified judges and judging quilt shows. She holds positions on four local quilt guild boards and is the judging coordinator for two. She believes quilting is a time-honored tradition and loves the history and the future of quilting as she promotes the tradition to new quilters of any age.
• Quilt judges understand that entrants are at different stages of their quilting journey. When evaluating a quilt, they look at many things, including color, design, piecing accuracy and construction, binding, quilting density, design choice and execution, tension, thread choice, starts and stops, appliqué skill and more.
• Quilt show judges don’t have the luxury of studying your quilt for hours on end. In most cases, they only have a few minutes to evaluate each quilt. Their critiques cite areas of strength and areas for improvement that they can note in that short time span. Unfortunately, the judges can’t really tell you how to fix a problem that they se
You will not receive physical tickets if you sign up for a class or lecture at the show. Your name will be on a paid guest list at the door of the classroom or lecture hall and you will check in then. Purchasing tickets to a class or lecture is a fee over and above the price of admission to the OPQG Show.
99 in stock
