Are you a piecer or a quilter?
#24
Super Member
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Central NJ
Posts: 5,572
I enjoy the whole process. It was a fascination with hand quilting that e started quilting. I love hand quilting the most, and hand piecing after that, but I also use machines for both piecing and quilting because I want to finish more quilts than I could do by hand. I'd call myself a quilter.
#26
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: AR/NM
Posts: 358
This describes me too. I love doing the piecing and watching the quilt grow into a thing of beauty. And I like doing the binding...but the sandwiching and quilting are so hard for me. It's almost like I am fighting the quilt and the quilt is fighting me! 😀
#27
Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 230
I am definitely a piecer. I only have a small brother machine, so quilting is not especially fun right now. And I enjoy the "building" process of piecing. Once I get a longarm, I'm sure I'll enjoy quilting, too.
#28
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Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Illinois
Posts: 2,140
Ha! And I would've said the same thing about cutting & piecing. I could do needle turn applique & FMQ all day long and while it's not perfect, my mistakes are very rarely noticeable to non-quilters. It's the precision cutting & lining up all those crazy seams that completely confounds me. I end up PP'ing most things I piece because I just can't get the pieces cut out right & once that's off, a beautiful 1/4" seam (or scant 1/4") is never enough to compensate for my wonky cutting. I really admire those that cut their own pieces without a die cut or cutting machine & can actually get the seams to match up. That is a real skill!
#29
I am a piecer and a quilter, but I enjoy the pieceing more. I'm still just beginning to do the quilting. I did one on a domestic machine and I've done one now on a frame. I am not proficient at either, but the frame was much nicer than wrangling a large quilt through the harp of the domestic. I am looking forward to finishing more quilts and hopefully getting better at it.
I love binding too. I hear a lot of people saying they hate that part but I find it very relaxing work and love finishing up the edges so that everything is tucked in neatly!
I love binding too. I hear a lot of people saying they hate that part but I find it very relaxing work and love finishing up the edges so that everything is tucked in neatly!
#30
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: England Alton Towers
Posts: 6,673
I'm a piercer and quilter I'm not a sandwicher. When I get to that stage I nearly always begin a new project. Once sandwiched I love the fmq on the top and wonder why I waited so long. At present a bad shoulder is stopping me doing any heavy putting together or mauling.
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