Are You A Topper???
02-20-2011, 01:03 PM
#113
Super Member
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Jozefow, Poland
Posts: 4,474
I will say it as well...I have been the recipient of many nice tops that I've been able to finish and give away via our charitable organization here in Poland.
The ladies love them...even the ones people in the states think are ugly.
However, I do work in groups...I finished almost 80 quilts in Dec./Jan...had been saving tops that I made all last year and some were donated. I prefer to work in groups because I buy the batting in 50 meter rolls and want to use it up at once. It simply takes too much room to store and sometimes the cats think it is...well...let's not go there. Anyway, I need at least groups of almost 20 to use up a roll.
So...I love making tops, but I'm trying to make up a few more quilts tops in order to give me an excuse to buy a roll of thinner batting (I can only find poly here) and try to quilt a planned quilt top. But, I started two more that I've been dying to do for years...a sailboat quilt and a pine tree quilt. Both probably fall in the category of scrap quilts.
But since I collect other people's tops and try to finish them (I get help and we tie them)...and donate them, I don't really know how to call myself. But I definitely prefer piecing and sewing to the quilting part.
At least so far. I'm hoping to change that with my new Janome!
The ladies love them...even the ones people in the states think are ugly.
However, I do work in groups...I finished almost 80 quilts in Dec./Jan...had been saving tops that I made all last year and some were donated. I prefer to work in groups because I buy the batting in 50 meter rolls and want to use it up at once. It simply takes too much room to store and sometimes the cats think it is...well...let's not go there. Anyway, I need at least groups of almost 20 to use up a roll.
So...I love making tops, but I'm trying to make up a few more quilts tops in order to give me an excuse to buy a roll of thinner batting (I can only find poly here) and try to quilt a planned quilt top. But, I started two more that I've been dying to do for years...a sailboat quilt and a pine tree quilt. Both probably fall in the category of scrap quilts.
But since I collect other people's tops and try to finish them (I get help and we tie them)...and donate them, I don't really know how to call myself. But I definitely prefer piecing and sewing to the quilting part.
At least so far. I'm hoping to change that with my new Janome!
02-20-2011, 02:51 PM
#114
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Halls Cross Roads, TN
Posts: 987
me too!
I have a friend who only makes one quilt at a time from piecing to binding...I think she is an alien!
Guess I'm an "Alien" ...
:-D
Originally Posted by quiltmaker
Originally Posted by Woolie
Originally Posted by leatheflea
Is there a quilter who doesnt?!
Guess I'm an "Alien" ...
:-D
02-20-2011, 03:00 PM
#116
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: UK side of the pond
Posts: 1,812
I'm an alien too. Only one escaped me. That was a Bethleham Star quilt and I lost the fabric I cut for the borders. Keeping the unfinished UFO in the forlorn hope that one day the missing fabric will turn up. :oops:
02-20-2011, 03:09 PM
#117
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Georgia
Posts: 877
I usually try to finish each quilt as I go, but I do have one topper, and one quilt I am strip quilting on my tiny machine. I much prefer to hand quilt. I work like crazy to get the tops done so I can enjoy quilting it for a few months. yeah, I'm pretty crazy to enjoy the quilting better than the making, but that's me.
kim from GA
kim from GA
02-20-2011, 03:32 PM
#118
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Chapel Hill ,TN.
Posts: 1,091
Originally Posted by Woolie
Originally Posted by leatheflea
Is there a quilter who doesnt?!
02-21-2011, 02:13 PM
#120
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Alaska
Posts: 2,356
Originally Posted by sherriequilts
Originally Posted by Mumzbear
My DH is too excited to quilt them. He finished one before I can get another top made and is waiting for the next one. I would never get them done if I made them all by myself.
Would you be able to have your husband teach mine?
:thumbup:
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