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Originally Posted by Teri D
(Post 5239767)
This sort of thing is going on in just about any "hobby". I'm an amateur astronomer and we get into discussions about whether it is "cheating" to use those "new fangled" telescopes that automatically orient themselves with built-in GPS systems and then automatically move to a celestial object you select and then track it for you while you "observe" by watching a computer screen! I still like to operate my scopes manually and look through an eyepiece (sometimes while perched on a ladder since one of my scopes is taller than I am!) because I enjoy hunting for stuff -- which takes time and a knowledge of the location of celestial objects in the sky built up over many years of practice. Yes, at times I catch myself thinking that the other folks are "cheating" but then I realize that the whole point is to enjoy the beauty of the creation -- so the method you use is irrelevant. Quilting, like astronomy, reminds me a bit of the biblical passage that goes something like: "in My house there are many mansions".....
You're right about the beauty. Overhead and underground. (I like Geology, too) If it wasn't for the prism used to analyze color from starlight, we wouldn't have all these shades and stuff advanced by technology. There's beauty in every quilt - regardless of how it's done. The quilt using the ugliest fabrics and rather rough might have its beauty in the story behind it. Or the beauty of someone trying to teach themselves without any guidance. The fact that they persevered is beauty. |
if you counted all the people here that would of gone home with you , You'll have a real crowded home. but I bet we all would have fun. LOL ..... I believe that we just use more up to date tools for this art form. But no matter what your preference is for working it it still is quilting. Here is another one I have heard people argue about:
That embroidery isn't really embroirdery if you do it by machine. What else can it be for petes sake? |
Seriously, I'd probably have stayed, listening and giggling at them. :D
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I have to add this one...the long arm quilters who say I am not really a quilter because my long arm is computerized.
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Some people need to know they are entitled to their opinion but the rest of the world has the option to disagree with their opinion as well. Good for you going home to quilt. We also have the right to not listen to this heated discussion and find something better to do.
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Originally Posted by Debbie C
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what a waste of time by those cackling hens when they could have been enjoying their time together creating something beautiful and long-lasting - I suppose this is why I am happiest (alone) in my home studio
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I'd rather quilt than fight. To each her own! Does the fact that my ancesters didn't use a rotary cutter make me a non-quilter because I do? I think not! I would have been out of the door with you!
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Wow I think I would have just laughed and walked away. There is so much more in this world to worry about especially where on earth am I going to store all the fabric I keep buying for all those quilt ideas in my head!! Happy quilting
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Life is short. You left and that is the right decision. We are all quilters of either fabric or life. We put fabric together either by piecing, applique or putting layers together. We also put our and others lives together. Quilters we all are and appreciate everyone of them.
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I am so sick of some people thinking they are better than others. You are a quilter if you make a quilt, period. The top is the quilt. If you send it to someone to longarm, so be it. That is your choice, no better no less. Your choice, at least the quilt gets quilted.
I was told by a guild leader that the quilt I was working on wasn't a real quilt because it was a quilt as you go and I sewed it together on my serger. I don't belong to the guild any longer. Glad you left. |
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