2016 UFO Challenge of the Month
11-04-2016, 08:06 AM
#2565
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Eastern Washington
Posts: 6,514
Ah shucks, thanks everyone. 
Anna is working on some neat projects, she sends me text pics. She is a very good quilter as well.
Now to get some more quilts done to work on that edge to edge so I can enter another quilt in a show. Told hubby I need to make two outfits for the next Manusco quilt show and he just laughed at me. Yeah, I do tend to overwhelm myself.
Anna is working on some neat projects, she sends me text pics. She is a very good quilter as well.
Now to get some more quilts done to work on that edge to edge so I can enter another quilt in a show. Told hubby I need to make two outfits for the next Manusco quilt show and he just laughed at me. Yeah, I do tend to overwhelm myself.
11-04-2016, 09:18 AM
#2566
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Blacksburg, SC
Posts: 731
Good job, QM!! Love your feathers!!
As far as someone's comment about "getting that good", I've found that when I have a UFO that I'm not being excessively "perfectionist" about (in other words, I don't like it anymore
), I find that I'm a lot more relaxed.If you practice on something that "doesn't matter", and your focus is on refining a quilting skill (feathers, ruler-work, FMQ, whatever), then you don't stress about having to be perfect, and USUALLY by the time you are finished, you discover that you have mastered that particular skillset.
Practicing on paper is great to get the "muscle memory" down, but when you actually get started on the quilt itself, that monster of perfectionism often destroys our self-confidence.
Get the ugly flimsies, the yardsale finds, the "what was I THINKING?!?!?" tops, and use them to focus on the quilting skills you want to refine. Once you're done, you will surely be surprised at just how good you actually are... and the quilt is no longer an "ugly duckling".
As far as someone's comment about "getting that good", I've found that when I have a UFO that I'm not being excessively "perfectionist" about (in other words, I don't like it anymore
), I find that I'm a lot more relaxed.If you practice on something that "doesn't matter", and your focus is on refining a quilting skill (feathers, ruler-work, FMQ, whatever), then you don't stress about having to be perfect, and USUALLY by the time you are finished, you discover that you have mastered that particular skillset.Practicing on paper is great to get the "muscle memory" down, but when you actually get started on the quilt itself, that monster of perfectionism often destroys our self-confidence.
Get the ugly flimsies, the yardsale finds, the "what was I THINKING?!?!?" tops, and use them to focus on the quilting skills you want to refine. Once you're done, you will surely be surprised at just how good you actually are... and the quilt is no longer an "ugly duckling".
11-04-2016, 12:06 PM
#2567
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Wyoming in the summer, Florida in the winter
Posts: 7,583
love the runner Janice and your scrappy Beth. Need to have hubby build me a long arm table soon. Here's the pic's Janice, don't have the quilt binding done yet so it will be a November finish.[ATTACH=CONFIG]561596[/ATTACH]
11-04-2016, 02:46 PM
#2569
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Between the dashes of a tombstone
Posts: 12,716
Yup, I've decided that my everyday quilts aren't going to be heirloom quilts so practice away....now my current scrap quilt, may be a different story, but I will treat it special then...
Pretty blue finishes jaba
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