hand quilting.
10-21-2013, 10:02 PM
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It's not about speed - think of it as a chance to meditate and re-charge those batteries
. Hand quilting is the best indoor relaxation activity - and you have something beautiful to show for it.
. Hand quilting is the best indoor relaxation activity - and you have something beautiful to show for it.
10-21-2013, 10:14 PM
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my gran is 89. i know...but it had to be by hand. but....
just frustrated after having put it down over the summer i guess.
just seems kind of endless...
(this is a late night whine brought to you by relentless self-recrimination.)
aileen
just frustrated after having put it down over the summer i guess.
just seems kind of endless...
(this is a late night whine brought to you by relentless self-recrimination.)
aileen
10-22-2013, 03:50 AM
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just enjoy the process, it is not meant to be fast. If you were doing embroidery or needlepoint you would not expect to be zipping along.
When I was hand quilting for others, more or less full time (6-8 hours a day) I can tell you, you are prone to repetitive motion injuries if you try to overdo it.
When I was hand quilting for others, more or less full time (6-8 hours a day) I can tell you, you are prone to repetitive motion injuries if you try to overdo it.
10-22-2013, 03:55 AM
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I love to hand quilt and sew in the evenings.i feel that with the sewing machine in the day I am rushing to finish, can I get off the rat race. In the evening not being lazy just slowly meditating and hand sewing. I know when to stop I can't thread the needle.
Keep hand sewing it will rewRd you in the end and you will be charged for a new day.
Keep hand sewing it will rewRd you in the end and you will be charged for a new day.
10-22-2013, 05:12 AM
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I'm slow as well. It takes me 3-4 months to do a quilt on my quilting frame.... and that's stitching on it a little every day. But I love to see the completed project.... really love the look of hand quilting. So, I don't hand quilt everything.... it takes too long. I do FMQ as well for the ones that aren't as 'special' to me. Right now I have a quilt on the frame that's been there over a year..... I'm gone every summer to our cabin and can't hand quilt and last winter I broke my arm. So, we just got back to our winter place and I uncovered the quilt to work on it. I've been here since Saturday night and haven't had a chance to stitch.... my 93 year old mom was in the hospital and I had to be by her side for 2 days. This quilt is taking a long time to finish.
10-22-2013, 06:15 AM
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Took me a year to quilt a double -- shadow quilted around all the needleturn applique first and then the background - did get a bit tiresome sometimes so then I would do something small, but such pleasure when I put in that last stitch - I hand quilt everything stops me falling asleep on the couch in the evenings ha ha
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