Piecing? Quilting? or both?
07-07-2012, 05:18 AM
#82
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Any place I can sew
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I'm just curious, how many are like me and ONLY like to quilt? I'm so happy when I'm sitting at my quilting machine, moving fabric around and turning something "pretty" into something "amazing"! (at least in my mind, anyway!) I do buy my quilt tops or use "cheater" because I don't enjoy buying fabrics, cutting or piecing at all!
How many of you enjoy the process of making a quilt top and finding the perfect fabrics and patterns? Carefully cutting hundreds of pieces of material into dozens of shapes and following each direction perfectly (or perhaps coming up with your own pattern!) and producing a work of art? But then either suffer thru tying or quilting to get a finished quilt? Or hire someone else to finish it for you?
And how many of you love it all (except basting, of course Lol)?
How many of you enjoy the process of making a quilt top and finding the perfect fabrics and patterns? Carefully cutting hundreds of pieces of material into dozens of shapes and following each direction perfectly (or perhaps coming up with your own pattern!) and producing a work of art? But then either suffer thru tying or quilting to get a finished quilt? Or hire someone else to finish it for you?
And how many of you love it all (except basting, of course Lol)?
I do NOT like quilting (I fight it or it fights me!!!!), but I do LOVE picking out the PERFECT fabric with the PERFECT pattern (I LOVE to FEEL fabric, because it FEELS SOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD and it lets you know what it wants to be when it grows up!!!!!).
Machine quilting doesn't come easy to me at all. I spend more time stopping, starting, ripping out and it ALWAYS looks like I've made a MESS (like when the timing is out on your sewing machine). At least that's what I feel like my quilting looks like.
Too bad we live so far apart!!!
Happy Sewing!
07-07-2012, 07:12 AM
#83
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Missouri
Posts: 1,250
I love piecing a quilt top. Touching/choosing the fabric, choosing just the right pattern. And seeing it all come together into a wonderful quilt top. I have no interest in learning to LAQ, I send my quilts out to be quilted.
07-07-2012, 07:24 AM
#84
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: proctor,wv
Posts: 1,395
I love it all, too. Seems like such a fun challenge to me to start with scraps and pieces, (or bolts of fabric) and create a quilt. Once I do that I love quilting it, and binding it. And my favorite is BUYING fabric, like an addiction. Buy it and then figure out what you may do with it. LOL
07-07-2012, 10:38 AM
#87
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Lowell, MA
Posts: 14,083
I love the entire process, from finding that just right fabric, often with no particular pattern in mind, and piecing the tops is also fun - seeing the quilt go from an idea to a finished top. I would just like to find a way to have the "sandwiching" quilt fairy come in at night so that I can wake up the next morning, or even a day or more later, and have the quilt ready for quilting. Guess that's why I have so many UFO's in my sewing room. I love taking large pieces of fabric, cutting them up into smaller pieces, then taking those smaller pieces, making them one large piece for someone's bed or just a quilt to cuddle under. Are there any sandwiching fairies out there????
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