A sense of accomplishment!!
03-04-2015, 12:13 PM
#23
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Location: Lowell, MA
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Congratulations on just "going for it", as you never know what you can do if you don't try. Early in my quilting career, I learned to quilt from watching quilt shows, and purchasing Georgia Bonesteel's Spinning Spools, where I would receive quilt block patterns with plastic templates, with directions. I am basically a self-taught quilter as I did not have anyone to help me learn. I purchased quilt magazines and picked out patterns I liked and just dove right in, so sometimes I tackled quilts, which some would have said were beyond my abilities. Eventually, I did take some quilt classes, including one on machine quilting and joined a guild. The biggest thing I learned is that if there was nobody there to tell me something was too hard or too complicated for my skill set, I just did it. Sure I made mistakes, but every mistake also meant something learned, so I could expand my quilting skills. My advice to new quilters is to take classes, if possible, watch TV Quilt shows if they are available, and watch tutorials on You Tube. Jenny Doan on MSQC has great methods to make quilts quickly but yet look more complicated than they really are. Just go for it.
03-06-2015, 03:15 AM
#26
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: PA
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Congratulations on your accomplishment and you are so right. Those of us who have a bit more experienceshould always be willing to lead a novice and I really think for the most part, happens here on the QB.
Harder to do, is to convince those who always say just what you said at the beginning of your post. "I'll never be able to do that", is, yes they can, if they just........do it!
This is the rightest thing people say because if they don't try it, they will never accomplish it.
Who taught us us that we can't do "it", what ever it is? Every time we hear ourselves saying this, we need to do the thing we say we can't.
If I gave up after my first quilting failure, I would never sew again. How sad that would be.
peace to all, and try "it", you may find you like it.
Harder to do, is to convince those who always say just what you said at the beginning of your post. "I'll never be able to do that", is, yes they can, if they just........do it!
This is the rightest thing people say because if they don't try it, they will never accomplish it.
Who taught us us that we can't do "it", what ever it is? Every time we hear ourselves saying this, we need to do the thing we say we can't.
If I gave up after my first quilting failure, I would never sew again. How sad that would be.
peace to all, and try "it", you may find you like it.
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