EasyPeezy

I like the whole process but I don't look forward to cutting borders or
squaring my quilt tops. Always afraid it will go wonky. Reason:
my two banquet tables are warped...bows in the middle.
Should buy new tables but I seem to always find something more
important.

pandamommy

The unseating! Would love it if I never had to do that again. I just keep telling myself that it is just part of the quilting process

Ariannaquilts

I definitely would have to say that the least favorite thing is binding the finished quilt, had often thought about paying someone else to do it but did that once and was very disappointed in the result.

joe'smom

What is unseating?

The only thing I don't like one little bit is trimming the threads on the back of the finished quilt top. I've now started to trim throughout the entire piecing process, so that it goes much quicker at the end.

GailG

I'm with you, SewCraftyGirl. That is my all-time never-want-to-do-it chore. Quilting comes a close second. My favorite parts of the process are the cutting, piecing, and binding.

quilting cat

I'll never make another quilt with a dominant color I don't like! I think it was 6 years ago that I made a (king) challenge quilt that was 40% my least favorite color, followed immediately by a 25th anniversary quilt (to replace a nearly worn out wedding quilt) that was nearly all that same color family. I was so burned-out on the color that I even purged my closet of clothing in that color!

Fraew

Repetition makes me crazy. Same block 100 times? Eeeeek! Like cutting when I have the right die to cut with. Not a fan of cutting by hand. Love, love, love binding.

We need minions for the stuff we want to avoid.

bearisgray

I think there are - we just don't like to pay them.

Patricia Drew

I don't like burying threads when the quilting is done. I think some quilters do a kind of lock stitch (stitching in place) and cut threads with the machine's thread cutter. I'm tempted to do that ...

Jan in VA

For me it might be easier to state what I do like about quilting:
designing the quilt or block
choosing the fabrics -- sometimes this can take a couple of hours as I fondle, audition, refold, restack and store, etc.!!
1. sewing the blocks
2. deciding on sashing/borders/embellishments
3. hand basting the sandwich -- (This is a sitting task. I do sitting well <snark> as I have pain on standing for more than a few minutes )
4. Depending on size, I sometimes enjoy the quilting if the project is baby size or smaller. I also enjoy deciding the quilting design, usually with straight lines, often in interesting patterns, but NEVER 'in the ditch' -- if I'm gonna do all that work, people had jolly well better be able to SEE it!!~
5. hand sewing down the binding
6. washing the finished quilt -- I always do this because I don't often wash my fabric first any more. That is too labor intensive for me now; the fabrics I use mostly are older, in my stash, have already been handled a lot with auditioning them for quilts, rearranging, sharing with classes, moving (lands, how much moving -- 10 moves in the past 20 years!!)
7. using/displaying my quilts/sharing at my guild's Show and Tell.

I'd love to have a quilting partner who loved the aspects I don't in quilting; we'd make a great team and get lots more done, I'd bet!! Wish someone would move here.

Jan in VA