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  1. 09-21-2012, 09:26 AM #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by Prissnboot View Post
    How do you make it through boring projects?
    I use my imagination and make a concerted, constructive and creative effort to make it NOT boring.

    You know, 9 patches don't have to made of equal sized blocks and just two fabrics.
    The shapes - individual pieces or the whole blocks - can have irregular or curved edges.
    The color distribution doesn't have to necessarily be 5 and 4.
    Different fabrics - even solids/blenders - can enhance what is a relatively simple block.

    A little effort can make it decidedly FABULOUS.
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  2. 09-21-2012, 06:27 PM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by MTS View Post
    I use my imagination and make a concerted, constructive and creative effort to make it NOT boring.

    You know, 9 patches don't have to made of equal sized blocks and just two fabrics.
    The shapes - individual pieces or the whole blocks - can have irregular or curved edges.
    The color distribution doesn't have to necessarily be 5 and 4.
    Different fabrics - even solids/blenders - can enhance what is a relatively simple block.

    A little effort can make it decidedly FABULOUS.
    That's the attitude between someone who sews quilts and a quilt artist!
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  3. 09-21-2012, 09:41 AM #3
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    Maybe it's an everyday quilt.

    Simple quilts are sometimes what is needed at the time.

    I agree with Martina, I would change the attitude into something happy and have fun. It will show in your finished quilt.
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  4. 09-21-2012, 09:49 AM #4
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    Just get it done knowing she'll be happy with it and you'll be paid for it. Win/win situation, IMHO.
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    Every time I say yes to a consignment I tell myself "never again!" They hamper creativity and invariably I'm working with colors that I don't love or themes that bore me or patterns that don't keep me interested. To answer the original question, I get through it as quickly as I can.
    A fabric stash is always missing that one fabric needed to finish the quilt on which you're working.
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  6. 09-21-2012, 12:16 PM #6
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    Some times things are what they are, a job that you get paid for. It will be over soon and not take a lifetime and you will make someone happy too!
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    Chocolate!
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  8. 09-23-2012, 01:51 PM #8
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    I'm guessing if this is for a co worker, quilting is not your main occupation. Anyway, just finish it up and if you don't like to take uninteresting quilt jobs, don't do it.
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    I remind myself that not everyone likes my taste in quilts either. Be glad it's not a king size quilt and "just do it".
    The Earth without art is just "Eh".
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    I, too, often don't care for the commission quilts I have to make. I ask for a potion of the cost up front, "So that I can purchase the fabrics and supplies". This also covers my patootie if the 'buyer' reneges on the finished quilt. Then I am at least not out the cost of the thing they aren't going to get. (If I really don't want it then, I donate it to our guild's community quilts project.)

    I photocopy the check and tape it up where I can see it during the piecing and quilting. This keeps me focused on the result for me....more payment at the end! Or, sometimes, I post a page out of a catalog of some fabric, book, tools I'm looking forward to buying.

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