What's wrong with me?
#12
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Folsom, CA
Posts: 1,548
Worse than the quilting is the ripping. Unfortunately I had a terrible wrinkle in the middle of my most recent quilt. I have spent the better part of a week ripping. I had to break it up yesterday with fun by cutting and sewing a different quilt. I love quilting as there are so many varied parts to the process, but I hope I don't ever have to go to the ripping part again. Rip, rip.
#13
I don't know what my problem is. I love picking out fabrics, I piece blocks happily, putting them together with or without sashing is no problem, adding borders can be fun, sandwiching is ok, but making myself sit down to start the actual quilting is next to impossible. What's wrong with me?
Or maybe you just need a nice reward...more fabric, for example??? Or chocolate, or good music in the background??
Or just someone saying "You can do it!!" You can, you know.
Dina
#14
Nothing's wrong with you! Some people just enjoy one aspect of the proses more than another. In my guild we have several people who only make the tops, we also have a lady who only does long arm work, one who works mainly with panels and uses her DM only. to each there own, do what you enjoy doing.
#15
Glad to know I'm in good company! However I want to get this one done and I just can't seem to move forward on it. At the rate I'm going I guess I might as well just start hand quilting on it.
#17
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Western Wisconsin
Posts: 12,930
I was like that until I got my midarm frame setup. Now I'm *really* happy I have a stockpile of quilt tops to quilt! I just don't like sitdown quilting on my domestic machine, even though I've done it. I ***do*** enjoy moving the machine around on a frame setup. Fun, fun, fun!
#19
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 41,548
I admit doing the sandwiching is one of my least favourite parts. Everything else I like so I take the good with the bad. If you can afford it, you can turn your tops over to a long armer to finish.
#20
Super Member
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: East Tennessee
Posts: 1,053
There's nothing wrong with you. I think many quilters have similar problems with one aspect or another of the process. It seems to me that we all have difficulty "launching" into the part of the process where we have least faith in our skills. I'm guessing your strengths are design and careful piecing. If that's the case, your quilts may not need elaborate quilting to make them shine anyway. I know I spend too much time obsessing over "just the right" design. Don't beat up on yourself though. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU. Don't even think like that.
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