Is this Cheating...
02-05-2011, 07:06 PM
#51
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That is how my grandmothers and mom finished all of their quilts. They just couldn't stand to waste anything. Most of them have held up very well, some have had to have the bindings replaced, but that is easy enough. Don't worry about it, it isn't worth the stress.
02-05-2011, 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted by leatheflea
Next time she opens a can of soup, corn, green beans, or cooks anything from the store, tell her shes cheating.
02-05-2011, 07:27 PM
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Personally, I LOVE tied quilts. That's what I do most of the time.
It's sad when you know full well that no matter what you say, your mom will shoot you down. Just try to love her and pass over that. She must be an unhappy person, not knowing how to show her love for you. Sometimes the world can get you down and this makes you nervous and upset. No one knows what battle anyone else is fighting.
It's sad when you know full well that no matter what you say, your mom will shoot you down. Just try to love her and pass over that. She must be an unhappy person, not knowing how to show her love for you. Sometimes the world can get you down and this makes you nervous and upset. No one knows what battle anyone else is fighting.
02-05-2011, 07:52 PM
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Oh my goodness! They way you are finishing your quilts is perfectly wonderful, I'm so sorry that someone would be critical of your technique. So many quilts are tied and the backing folds over to finish the quilt....You just keep doing it your way and don't even bother feeling bad, you are doing a great job!!
02-05-2011, 08:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Jan in VA
Critical people are angry people. and angry people are scared people.
Scared she can't do it at all.
Scared she didn't teach you well enough (in anything).
Scared of criticism that it isn't "right" so she doesn't do it at all (such as finish her own quilts).
Scared if she doesn't criticize first she'll be criticized (for something she's done that she perceives is not good enough).
Scared people need reassurance that they are in the presence of people who are quite confident/comfortable with what the scared person fears.....they need to see that *someone* isn't scared like they are. Be that person for your mother, maybe she'll eventually be able to relax and accept that you know exactly what you're doing. Or are at least compleely comfortable with how whatever is working out.
Her comments are way more an indication of how she's feeling than how you're doing!
Jan in VA
Scared she can't do it at all.
Scared she didn't teach you well enough (in anything).
Scared of criticism that it isn't "right" so she doesn't do it at all (such as finish her own quilts).
Scared if she doesn't criticize first she'll be criticized (for something she's done that she perceives is not good enough).
Scared people need reassurance that they are in the presence of people who are quite confident/comfortable with what the scared person fears.....they need to see that *someone* isn't scared like they are. Be that person for your mother, maybe she'll eventually be able to relax and accept that you know exactly what you're doing. Or are at least compleely comfortable with how whatever is working out.
Her comments are way more an indication of how she's feeling than how you're doing!
Jan in VA
But today, I'm the woman who would have asked the critical mother the last time SHE did a binding.
Of course it isn't cheating, as everyone else here has said. A quilt should be warm, comforting and made with love. If you have that, you have it all.
02-05-2011, 09:04 PM
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As far as I know there is no "cheating" in binding or any other quilting process. YOU are the artist and you have the right to do it any way you wish. We all need to keep an open mind about how we do things. I have discovered a lot of things that make quilting easier and just as good that I would never have thought of on my own. So somebody comes up with a new way to do something, great, let me try it. Some of these ideas are real winners. In binding you can use separate strips, straight of grain or bias, turn the front to the back or turn the back to the front. It's still bound and the purpose is to cover the raw edges. Quilt on!
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