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I have to agree with laughing at the differences and making it fun doing something outside your comfort zone. This is what I did in a similar situation in making a comfort quilt for a friends niece. Let me tell you, I had more compliments on that quilt (that I didn't like even finished, lol) than almost any other of my quilts. Just goes to show, there's someone out there for every style and color combination!!
Linda Wedge White
I believe UFOs are like scraps, ferns and dust bunnies. Once you get two, they send spores out into the air and more just happen anywhere the spores meet.
Am I an odd one out, altho I haven't made a lot of quilts I love all colours, I do have my fav colours lilac and purple the best, then reds and blues. I also have not made a quilt for a person I don't know or on commission, so I cannot comment on that.
a house is just a house till you get a cat then it is the cats home and you are it's slave,
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Think about the person you're making it for, rather than thinking about the quilt directly.
I'm doing that now...I have 2 quilts I'm trying desperately to finish for Christmas, and neither one is my style AT ALL. But as I'm working on them, whenever I start to feel sick and tired of looking at all this foo-foo fabric, I just turn my mind to thinking about how much I love the people I'm making them for, and how the quilt will be loved and appreciated by them. That turns me around and makes me dig back into the work happily.
Sew the quilt because you like to sew. Sew it for the process of sewing, the joy of sewing. I make a lot of quilts for homeless families and often of whatever fabric I have on hand, some donated. Generally, I am not crazy about the colors but someone always likes them. I watch tv or listen to music or lectures or books on tape and just lose myself in the enjoyable process. It's much easier to give a quilt away when it is not your favorite colors.
Last edited by cricket_iscute; 12-23-2014 at 12:13 PM.
When working on something I don't like, the reward of being done with it is the impetus that keeps me going (and hurrying!) I work faster so I can get done and rid of it sooner.
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"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I had to make an Oakland Raiders quilt for a family friend. Being that I was raised a KC Chiefs fan and became a Charger fan after moving to San Diego, I felt like a major traitor making a Raider Quilt. ;-) Once it was done it was a great relief. It made our friend so happy, I told him I had to wear special gloves to keep from getting Raider cooties, which made him laugh.
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