Slow or Fast?
#1
Today while I was working on my BOM Stitcher's Garden Quilt, I was thinking how much I was enjoying what I was doing and how slowly I was working on it. I guess I just take my time, savoring every step. I know I could work on it faster and be done with it, but I really do enjoy taking my time. Do you do the same thing or are you a fast sewer?
#7
I do both. I'm taking my time making the Piecemaker BOM Calendar quilt for 2011. It's all applique. It's my have to sit in LR and act like I don't want to be in my sewing room project. Amazing how much work I get done on it, lots of company coming over lately.
I like fast quilts to sew in my sewing room. I use my Go and can try out many patterns. I have one quilt project in my hand quilting frame I stitch on every now and then. No hurry for that one. My DGD will get it when it's finished. She has already claimed it as hers.
I like fast quilts to sew in my sewing room. I use my Go and can try out many patterns. I have one quilt project in my hand quilting frame I stitch on every now and then. No hurry for that one. My DGD will get it when it's finished. She has already claimed it as hers.
#8
Originally Posted by BellaBoo
It's my have to sit in LR and act like I don't want to be in my sewing room project.
#9
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I am on the slower side. My mom was my teacher and very much a perfectionist which was good because I learned to do it well. I have a friend who sews very quickly whether it is garments or quilts. However, I often think her finished product good be better if she slowed down and did the in between steps such as pressing well.
#10
I'm VERY slow, and my sewing room is set up to keep me that way. I have to walk from the cutting board to the machine, from the machine to the ironing board, and from the ironing board to the design wall. My way of sewing keeps me moving around and I like it that way. Keeps me from doing things "automatically" and well ... screwing it up!!
I do take advantage of time savers when I can though - like chain piecing, and cutting multiple pieces at a time. But for the most part I'm a part-time sewer (*maybe* twice a week - *maybe* once every two weeks!), and I'm a slow sewere so yeah - it takes me forever to get a project from conception to completion.
I do take advantage of time savers when I can though - like chain piecing, and cutting multiple pieces at a time. But for the most part I'm a part-time sewer (*maybe* twice a week - *maybe* once every two weeks!), and I'm a slow sewere so yeah - it takes me forever to get a project from conception to completion.
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