I'm with you Ghost rider, I think the idea of a cooperative is great. I'd do anything but cut, I HATE cutting. Piecing is my favorite.
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I'm with you Ghost rider, I think the idea of a cooperative is great. I'd do anything but cut, I HATE cutting. Piecing is my favorite.
I am so lucky to have THREE quilting fairies. I seem to only enjoy the cutting and the piecing of charity quilts. Fairies do exist out there. One does the quilting of my charity quilts, another does the binding and another is helping me with sewing the pillowcases. Friends have ask me why I just don't buy a pillowcase but I want it to match the quilt. I am quickly catching up with lots of UFOs that are finally going to be finding new happy homes.
A Good Friend, like an old quilt, is both a Treasure and a Comfort
Sandwiching up the quilts for me too is a chore. I have lots of tops, waiting to be sandwiched.
Preparing the backing,that seems to take forever and is very frustrating for me
binding binding and oh ya she can do the binding!
Billi
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Basting Fairy not needed: I glue baste all my quilts. Takes about 20 minutes for a large quilt. I don't understand why anyone would spend all that time pinning or thread basting a quilt. It's not necessary unless you really like basting.
Cutting Fairy not needed: I use my Go or precuts when the size is right.
Border Fairy needed part time: I don't add borders unless it enhances the quilt and is pieced, borders to make the quilt bigger looks like add ons to make the quilt bigger.
I love my life!
Onebyone, I'm with you on the glue basting. A poster a while back reminded us that glue basting replaces pin basting, not spray basting, so just drops or a grid will work great. I never thin and spray, just drizzle or drip onto the batting. It is the easiest I've tried and gives me the best result.Originally Posted by Onebyone
Alyce
Unless it is used to create a canvas of negative space for some drop dead gorgeous quilting or the quilt is such that it needs a frame. It is also a great space to show off some large print fabric that you just couldn't bear to cut. I love a gorgeous needle turn applique border of vines and leaves. And what about all those great border prints out there? There are many uses of borders that are not pieced then just to make the quilt bigger. IMHO every masterpiece deserves a frame.
As for my quilting fairy I seem to enjoy every part of it. Although marking is probably my least favorite, measuring out and marking registration points for quilting a motif that needs to be symmetrical and mirrored or breaking out the border for symmetrical designs. Not a big fan of blocking either. So my quilt fairy can do the blocking or marking for me.
In these cases the borders will enhance the quilt. Not all added borders do.
I love my life!
I would ask a fairy to iron the backing and top right before I make the quilt sandwich. I have to really make myself do that....and the quilt top is really already ironed, just like to give it one more ironing before pining it all together.
Ironing blocks and pieces as I go, that is okay. It's the big won't-stay-on-the-it-ironing-board process that I don't like....and I do have a big top on my ironing board!
I just plain don't like this step.But I always get through it, and it really never takes as long as I think it will.
Dina
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