"Quilters" do you fall in this category?
#292
I am over 62, and just started to quilt when my Mom came to live with me about 6 years ago. Her ideas on quilting and mine are miles apart. She did it all by hand, I tried, hated my stitches and went to the sewing machine. She passed away last Dec. and going through her room, neatly packed in plastic containers I have found many, many, pieces of fabric. And many, many completed quilt blocks. Now between my fabric stash and her's my Sun porch is a mess. I have it covered in fabric piles, projects half finished and piles of quilting books, etc. This is so much fun. I am sure I have more money in this hobby than I realize. I don't care. When I die my daughters can sort through it and maybe they will catch the quilting bug too. LOL
#293
Originally Posted by angelarose
I've been quilting for 2 yrs. I'm 65 yrs. old. I sew in a spare bedroom and keep supplies and fab. there. I bought a Janome, rather basic sewing machine which I love. I've made about 5 quilts, taken a quilting class for 5 weeks. Two of the quilts still have to be batted and backed. They're beatiful tops, but what is it about the final steps of completing a quilt that I read so many are guilty of. Is it a psychological "thing" or what. I truly want to know what it really is: why so many quilt tops are yet to be made into the final sandwich?
Also, oh boy! One of my unfinished projects is a Yellow Brick Road pattern of batiks and other complementary fabrics. Then I purchase some lime Minkee for the backing. No batting necessary I was advised. So I stitched in the ditch....A very hard technique for me to accomplish. I used a walking foot, too. I fail in keeping my stitching right in the ditch. Frustrating. I've ripped out hundreds of stitches. Any advice on sewing straight stitches in a ditch???????????
#294
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oh great...somebody had to, lol, go and mention adding by how much you spend a month times 12 and then by number of years quilting...um...I'm pleading the 5th on fabric,
I am NOT 62...although it's a nice age...really...just not trying to rush it ;)
and I am no where near 8,500.00 with tools and notions. :shock:
I am NOT 62...although it's a nice age...really...just not trying to rush it ;)
and I am no where near 8,500.00 with tools and notions. :shock:
#296
Originally Posted by thequilteddove
considering the value of our quilting habit, we can take comfort in know'n if we really run in to $$$ trouble we can hawk our stuff lolol
:lol:
#297
Just think quilting is good for our health.Most quilters are a happy lot and they are more relaxed most of the time. But it helps in the bad days as well ad the good and Boy! the friends you make along the way, it is great and they help you without wanting any thing back all the time. My friends rally around me when they learned about my bad panic attacks recently. Thanks to them I feel better in myself knowing that there are others like me and how the give the support I needed. I wish I knew WHY ? I am getting them and others too.
#298
Having projects to do is good for me! Quilting is one of the handful of other areas I play in. I am a new quilter. But
I do hope to use many of the ideas I have found on here. I also hope to be able to add things from time to time!
I do hope to use many of the ideas I have found on here. I also hope to be able to add things from time to time!
#299
Originally Posted by Annya
Just think quilting is good for our health.Most quilters are a happy lot and they are more relaxed most of the time. But it helps in the bad days as well ad the good and Boy! the friends you make along the way, it is great and they help you without wanting any thing back all the time. My friends rally around me when they learned about my bad panic attacks recently. Thanks to them I feel better in myself knowing that there are others like me and how the give the support I needed. I wish I knew WHY ? I am getting them and others too.
#300
My panic attacks are at night. I can go o bed and when I get up to go to the toilet it will suddenly hit me, I take an anti-depressant mirtazon, and it helps most of the time but twice in the last 5 years have I had real doozies. Ended up at the local hospital at 12.30. The Dr. gave me a little blue tablet which I took when I got home, once I could sleep it was over. But all of them are at night and I cannot go to talk to any one except the hospital staff. I am making a quilt and giving it to them for a raffle( a thank you for helping me). I would like to know WHY? we get them and is it only women at that certain age.Both my mum, sister and certain friends have suffered some sort of Panic attacks. Thank you for your support too. I can't sing at night will wake DH. He works.
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