What is your favorite part of making a quilt?
#31
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Today, it will be hand stitching the back of the binding on my most recent project. However, I am a planner at heart and love the searches for patterns and fabrics. Sometimes I actually plan for days before I "bite the bullet" and make that first cut. And, finally, it is putting that label on it -- "the grand finale!"
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I love doing the binding. I think it is my favorite part since I found out how to do it right. Jenny Doan has some good directions in her Block magazine, but I press a triangle into the beginning of the binding, and don't need a tool to end it. Betty Cotton is the one who taught me to do that. No matter what width binding you use, it always works.
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My favorite part is actually sitting down at my machine and begin the assembly. All the choices for color/design are made...that's most stressful part for me. But the sewing is my favorite as I pick a time when I can just sew for hours and not be disturbed. Usually it's summer evenings...dinner is done, good light coming in my studio windows from the west....ah, life is good!
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the binding? That is the only part of making a quilt I don't like - I love picking out the pattern and fabric, I love cutting and sewing, I even enjoy ironing. I love quilting (also have a long arm) but I just don't care for binding.
What may seem strange, but I think my favorite part is cutting the fabric.
What may seem strange, but I think my favorite part is cutting the fabric.
#37
I guess I'm a "starter"... I like starting each step of the process, but get a little weary of it as I get closer to finishing that step...motivating me to get on with it so I can "start" the next step. Maybe I should quit making big quilts and just do tiny ones that only last as long as that feeling of "starting". Seeing the finished product is also a great reward.
#38
Me too, even though I have a ping pong table in the basement with good lighting and spray adhesive. I have it down to a quick method with never a wrinkle, but still hate the time it takes and the stiffness in my back from bending over the table. I would rather be sewing or quilting. I even like the binding, though do both sides by machine almost 100 % of the time.
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