quilting blind spots
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quilting blind spots
Hi y'all,
I'm wondering if any of you have "quilting blind spots". There are several things that I do the same way every time, even though each time I say to myself (usually when I am halfway done) "Wow, this would have been much easier if I had done it this other way!" My current example is SITD around some stars: I carefully thought it out beforehand so that I could approximate continuous line quilting...but once I started quilting I reverted immediately to the (laborious) way I always do it, with a gazillion threads to bury. It's as if my brain will only allow me to do certain things one way.
Anyone else have examples of this?
Alison
I'm wondering if any of you have "quilting blind spots". There are several things that I do the same way every time, even though each time I say to myself (usually when I am halfway done) "Wow, this would have been much easier if I had done it this other way!" My current example is SITD around some stars: I carefully thought it out beforehand so that I could approximate continuous line quilting...but once I started quilting I reverted immediately to the (laborious) way I always do it, with a gazillion threads to bury. It's as if my brain will only allow me to do certain things one way.
Anyone else have examples of this?
Alison
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I know what you mean ... need to think as to what mine are.
Creating a new habit is hard!
Here's an old one ... when I was learning to use the knee lift ... I kept reverting back to the memory of using the knee pedal on the sewing machine when I was a kid! I finally conquered that, by moving the foot pedal to my left foot, and let my right have nothing to do with the gas!
Another ... when PPing I learned to press after I stitched then trim the seam. And then press again
A great aha moment came ... there was no need to press first ... trim then press after.
That took a long time to get in the habit ... and guess what? when I don't PP for awhile, I revert to the first method and have to re-train myself! UGH!
Creating a new habit is hard!
Here's an old one ... when I was learning to use the knee lift ... I kept reverting back to the memory of using the knee pedal on the sewing machine when I was a kid! I finally conquered that, by moving the foot pedal to my left foot, and let my right have nothing to do with the gas!
Another ... when PPing I learned to press after I stitched then trim the seam. And then press again
A great aha moment came ... there was no need to press first ... trim then press after.
That took a long time to get in the habit ... and guess what? when I don't PP for awhile, I revert to the first method and have to re-train myself! UGH!
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I still draw lines on flying geese. My friend said I'm wasting too much time and that I can sew a straight line and i know she's right, but I can't help myself, so I waste a lot of time drawing the lines on each one. I do the same when binding. I draw a line on each piece of binding. It does take a lot of extra time. I'm just too chicken to just sew straight across. I'm sure I can sew a straight line, but I don't dare try it.
And I use pins all the time. I know I don't need to, but I always pin everything. Wasting time pinning and drawing lines!!
And I use pins all the time. I know I don't need to, but I always pin everything. Wasting time pinning and drawing lines!!
#6
I still draw lines on flying geese. My friend said I'm wasting too much time and that I can sew a straight line and i know she's right, but I can't help myself, so I waste a lot of time drawing the lines on each one. I do the same when binding. I draw a line on each piece of binding. It does take a lot of extra time. I'm just too chicken to just sew straight across. I'm sure I can sew a straight line, but I don't dare try it.
And I use pins all the time. I know I don't need to, but I always pin everything. Wasting time pinning and drawing lines!!
And I use pins all the time. I know I don't need to, but I always pin everything. Wasting time pinning and drawing lines!!
Another of my blind spots is always ironing my (washed) fabric before folding it up and stuffing it into my fabric bins. I don't have a dryer so all of my fabric is dried on a line, and is therefore not very wrinkly. Even as I am ironing it I say to myself "You KNOW you are going to have to iron this again before you cut/use it...why are you spending time ironing it now?!" And yet I press on...
Alison
#7
I still draw lines on flying geese. My friend said I'm wasting too much time and that I can sew a straight line and i know she's right, but I can't help myself, so I waste a lot of time drawing the lines on each one. I do the same when binding. I draw a line on each piece of binding. It does take a lot of extra time. I'm just too chicken to just sew straight across. I'm sure I can sew a straight line, but I don't dare try it.
And I use pins all the time. I know I don't need to, but I always pin everything. Wasting time pinning and drawing lines!!
And I use pins all the time. I know I don't need to, but I always pin everything. Wasting time pinning and drawing lines!!
#8
"Another of my blind spots is always ironing my (washed) fabric before folding it up and stuffing it into my fabric bins. I don't have a dryer so all of my fabric is dried on a line, and is therefore not very wrinkly. Even as I am ironing it I say to myself "You KNOW you are going to have to iron this again before you cut/use it...why are you spending time ironing it now?!" And yet I press on...:
Hey, by ironing the fabric stays nicer and feels better when I pet it. Also it takes up less room. At least that is what I tell myself.
Hey, by ironing the fabric stays nicer and feels better when I pet it. Also it takes up less room. At least that is what I tell myself.
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I iron the fabric after washing (before putting it away) if it's really rumpled.
Otherwise, I just fold the fabric after taking it off the line or out of the dryer until I'm ready to cut it. Then I will iron/press it. I'm not THAT fond of ironing to do it twice!
Otherwise, I just fold the fabric after taking it off the line or out of the dryer until I'm ready to cut it. Then I will iron/press it. I'm not THAT fond of ironing to do it twice!
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