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#31
I was just looking at your quilts and I think you are a great quilter! Your Snake River is awesome!!! You should give yourself a pat on the back for tackling some of the quilts you've done. You don't need a fancy machine. I've got one, but prefer my featherweight for piecing. I love the brand name fabrics, but the reality is that I have to shop for bargains to replace what I've got now due to the economy. You obviously love what you are doing or wouldn't persist with such pretty quilts. Keep on quilting! :)
#32
Originally Posted by Joy Higdon
Thanks to all of you for the positive responses. I am just frustrated that I am working on a Victorian Log Cabin and although I was careful in measuring and cutting, pieceing with a (I thought and it measure 1/4 inch)seam, when I measure the finished block it measures 10 1/2 in instead 10 3/4 in.
I don't have a fancy machine, either--it's a crappy little Singer 5825C with exactly four stitches (all of them a zigzag variation) and a semi-automatic buttonholer. I don't want a long-arm, and I don't want to send my quilts out to one. I quilt by hand. That's my favorite part!
The definition of a quilt is a multi-layered covering secured by stitches or ties. If that is what you make, then you are a quilter. Period. :)
#33
Power Poster
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Ohio
Posts: 13,257
I am just like you. I have trouble with 1/4 seams. I have trouble with cutting my fabrics. I do prewash my fabric. I use the threads I have and I don't buy expensive fabric. But I love my quilts and I love the beautiful one one the board. If we make quilts, we are quilters!
#34
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Wadesboro, NC
Posts: 758
I think you are a "true quilter". I don't prewash my fabric either. I like the feel of new fabric in my machine. And I don't scorn thrift store fabric either. I found some wonderful pieces in bags of fabric at a local (at the beach) thrift store a few years ago. Some of the fat quarters were still tied with ribbon and tags from a quilt shop. Don't be so hard on yourself! You're doing a great job caring for your family. Enjoy your quilting! And remember to take care of yourself too!
#35
Originally Posted by cjomomma
I have learned not to compare my quilts to the ones I see on here. If I did then I would give up quilting.
I'm like you! I buy what I can afford whether it be Walmart fabric's or the thrift shops. As far as pressing the seams I just go with what feels right on each quilt.
I'm sure your quilts are beautiful!
I'm like you! I buy what I can afford whether it be Walmart fabric's or the thrift shops. As far as pressing the seams I just go with what feels right on each quilt.
I'm sure your quilts are beautiful!
#36
Originally Posted by mizkyp
Joy, you are a quilter. Fancy machines, 1/4 inch seams, and fabric dont make the quilt. It's the love that goes into the quilt that matters.
Happy quilting,
Margie
Happy quilting,
Margie
#37
Super Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 2,451
Joy, I admire anyone who can sew with perfection, I have desire however, I don't have the skill. Therefore I just plod along, and am a touchie touche at the fabic store even at JoAnn's not just my LQS.............however, I have discovered I am more of a purchaser than a producer............how did this happen I ask? But, taa daa, I did find that Sept. 11 fabric purchased a decade ago so now the task is at hand to finish it into something for the 10 yr anniversery.............calla
#38
Super Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,664
Do it for the love and joy it brings you not because someone else is perfect. I use to belong to a guild and everything had to be absolutely perfect even charity quilts. We were told to make them quilt show quality, I gave up doing them as I don't make mine quilt show quality & never will, I make them because I love doing it and love the reaction on the recipients face when they are received. Stop being so hard on yourself and enjoy doing what you like doing. As many have said there are NO quilt police on this board.
#40
Super Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Illinois
Posts: 9,312
It sad to think that your would ever regard yourself as a bad or lesser quilter. You are fabulous!!
Each of us brings such diversity to the art/craft that results in a equally diverse finished project. This is the fasination!
I have a a few machines .. my favorite is a circa 1950 knee control singer.... nothing fancy just a great machine.. 95 % of the sewing I do is on that machine. ..Once I was in a quilt shop that sold very high end machines. as they cut my fabric .. the person cutting asked me "what kind of machine do you have?" because I did not have the brand they sold it was apparent they thought I was a lesser quilter... Well I was so affended I could not keep myself from responding " I learned a long time ago .. its not the machine that makes the quilt ... its the person operating the machine". .. "and in fact no machine is really neccessary". My point is that each of us uses what we have, to create works that are first pleasing to the creator of the piece. If you are happy thats the only measurement that matters.
Each of us brings such diversity to the art/craft that results in a equally diverse finished project. This is the fasination!
I have a a few machines .. my favorite is a circa 1950 knee control singer.... nothing fancy just a great machine.. 95 % of the sewing I do is on that machine. ..Once I was in a quilt shop that sold very high end machines. as they cut my fabric .. the person cutting asked me "what kind of machine do you have?" because I did not have the brand they sold it was apparent they thought I was a lesser quilter... Well I was so affended I could not keep myself from responding " I learned a long time ago .. its not the machine that makes the quilt ... its the person operating the machine". .. "and in fact no machine is really neccessary". My point is that each of us uses what we have, to create works that are first pleasing to the creator of the piece. If you are happy thats the only measurement that matters.
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