Longarm quilting is not cheating
#71
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: near Peoria Illinois
Posts: 1,638
It is sad that some can only think one way to do anything. But this isn't age related entirely. I am proud of one guild I belong to. The ones that long arm aren't just younger ones. We have several over 70 that long arm and FMQ. Forward thinkers is what I call them.
Sorry you had this confrontation. Be proud that you didn't escillate the encounter with more fire. I don't think I could've been so lucky.
Sorry you had this confrontation. Be proud that you didn't escillate the encounter with more fire. I don't think I could've been so lucky.
#72
I do not tell others what they can or can't do on their quilts.
#73
When someone tries to tell me that LA quilting is 'cheating', I ask them if they still take their laundry down to the creek and beat it against the rocks to get it clean. After all, using one of those newfangled automatic washing and drying machines would be cheating, wouldn't it???
#76
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: MO
Posts: 1,057
You're probably right about the filter. I tell my DH a lot that if I can't do what I want at 69, when can I? Unfortunately, I think some people think that goes for saying whatever they want. Just consider the source & laugh!
#78
If longarm quilting is a no no, then they need to put me in jail totally. I can't get my quilts done without it. No matter how I try, hand quilting takes way to long for my attention span, still working on one after 8 years, and when i used my domestic machine, i always get tucks in the back. it is just how it is for me.
#79
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 84
bless your heart. i wish i could afford to own or rent a longarm quilting machine..but the machines i use (mid arm sewing machine and the treadle sewing machine will just have to do. i can understand the elderly womans perspective though...there are those quilts that have been longarmed that look like mattress pads. the lady was just ignorant about such machines and what they are capable of doing. that is not such a bad thing-maybe her daughter or granddaughter refuse to learn to do things the old way and that can be a bitter pill for her to swallow so she criticizes everyone who does something new.
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