What bothers you when making a quilt?
#22
Mis-cutting!!! Drives me nuts! It was using Stonehenge fabric, mis-cutting half the pieces needed for my niece's wedding quilt and scrambling like crazy to find more of the same fabric, that taught me this VERY expensive lesson. I am glad to say that I have become much better at double checking the pattern, triple checking the line on my ruler and making sure my ruler is anchored before touching anything sharp!
#25
I'll rarely rip things out to fix, but I've recently been attempting to learn paper piecing. I kept sewing the right side of one piece to the wrong side of the other, or cutting the pieces just a wee bit too small. Picking out paper pieced stitches is really annoying, especially if you're trying to save your pattern paper. Sigh. I am finally learning quilting while in a rush is a really bad idea for me. I have to focus and take my time, otherwise I have issues.
#26
I'm with toverly! I love doing the piecing, binding, etc., but getting the backing ready, cutting the batting and sandwiching have become difficult.....can't get down on the floor.....it is a job to take it somewhere where there are big tables....
BOO HOO!
BOO HOO!
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#29
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Join Date: Oct 2013
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What bothers me is that I am using a 1/4" foot with a guide and I move my needle over 1 so I'm getting a scant 1/4" so that is good - right? Well, somehow my blocks never end up even or if there are points, I loose the points when I put them together. So my new motto is "make it bigger and trim it to size!" Waste a little fabric - keep my sanity.
#30
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Pearland, TX
Posts: 406
Alas! My downfall seems to be adding the borders to finished off a quilt top. I really like taking classes because of the wonderful teachers I have encountered, and I like the camaraderie with fellow students. I can get the main part of the top finished during the class (usually), but when it comes to adding borders, I stall out. Our guild president has issued a challenge to complete a UFO each month during this year. When I went to make out my list of twelve UFO's, I found that I had a dozen (!!!!) tops which only needed borders. Some of the borders had already been cut and folded neatly inside the top; others had been folded neatly with the uncut border fabric inside. I spent four days adding borders and got my entire list done for the show and tell portion of our meeting. If it's that quick and easy to do, why, oh, why, do I hesitate so much? I guess I could do quilt tops without borders, but I like the look of a piece of art work inside a frame.
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