I love quilting but I hate making tops
10-13-2011, 10:13 AM
#83
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Originally Posted by AshleyR
I know I can't be the only one out there.... I really really dislike making tops. I will be the first to admit that I'm not the very best at it, but I can do it. I'm pleased with the results but I hate the process. So much that I'm going to go ahead and say it aloud: I HATE making quilt tops and I'm not going to do it again ever.
I love quilting. I love hand-quilting and I'm good at it. I am having fun practicing machine quilting, but I'm not good at it at all (yet!). I would love to quilt for hire but who can afford a hand-quilter??! My dream is to partner up with someone who loves to piece and she/he makes the tops and bastes them (ha) and I quilt them. :)
I love quilting. I love hand-quilting and I'm good at it. I am having fun practicing machine quilting, but I'm not good at it at all (yet!). I would love to quilt for hire but who can afford a hand-quilter??! My dream is to partner up with someone who loves to piece and she/he makes the tops and bastes them (ha) and I quilt them. :)
10-13-2011, 10:18 AM
#84
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Location: Claremont, Ca.
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I patiently piece just so I can get to my first love - machine quilting. I always practice quilting on a small quilt sandwich before quilting my project. One day my friend saw the practice piece and remarked that it looked like a small quilt. Soooooo, I began to plan my practice pieces so that I had a neater looking piece (no threads hanging). I began to plan my free motion quilting patterns so they were more pleasing than random quilting. Then I painted the practice piece and had an additional quilt. Then as fate would have it, I came across Irena Bluhm's book Quilts of a Different Color which appealed to me - no piecing.
10-13-2011, 10:20 AM
#85
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Location: New Hampshire
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Try hiring out yourself for hand quilting! I see adds all the time in Quilting magazines and on-line from people who will hand quilt. You would probably have a great time? Maybe you could start by contacting local quilt shops? It's worth a try. Good Luck!
10-13-2011, 10:26 AM
#87
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Originally Posted by sharoney
I don't dislike making tops, but FMQ is what I live for! I can't wait to finish a top so I can quilt it. When I finish quilting one, it's like finishing a good book- really enjoyed it, and sad it's over! I FMQ my sis-in-law's quilts, but she works full time and doesn't get very many made.
I have only done SID and would like to to learn to FMQ, but I know it takes a lot of practice, practice, practice (which I don't have the time for right now, but some day)
10-13-2011, 11:13 AM
#89
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Bacliff, TX on Galveston Bay
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I am another one that likes to make tops, but don't have time to hand quilt. I love hand quilting. My mother, sister, both grandmothers and aunts hand quilted, and I can, too, but it takes me so long. There were several ladies in Central TX that handquilted at reasonable rates, but they passed away. I don't know anyone in our area of TX that hand quilts for others.
It looks like you have lots of replies! I would send you a quilt top basted with batting and lining for you to hand quilt if you still need someone to trade with. And I'll make you a quilt top. Just tell me what you want. I really like to piece log cabin quilts.
Kathy in TX
It looks like you have lots of replies! I would send you a quilt top basted with batting and lining for you to hand quilt if you still need someone to trade with. And I'll make you a quilt top. Just tell me what you want. I really like to piece log cabin quilts.
Kathy in TX
10-13-2011, 12:13 PM
#90
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Originally Posted by dixiechunk
I love making tops and hate the quilting - machine or hand. I wish you lived closer, we could be buddies! Want to hand quilt my avatar, a hand appliqued Vintage Valentine?
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