"Traditional" Quilts and "Non-Tradtional" Quilters
#1
So,
I'm really struggling with this quilt top.
30 blocks that are EXACTLY the same. I'm 14 blocks into it and I'm bored.
I guess I like sampler quilts/non-traditional quilts where there is variety?
Here's the preview -- super rough blocks, but I need 16 more!!
ugh.
I'm really struggling with this quilt top.
30 blocks that are EXACTLY the same. I'm 14 blocks into it and I'm bored.
I guess I like sampler quilts/non-traditional quilts where there is variety?
Here's the preview -- super rough blocks, but I need 16 more!!
ugh.
#5
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Join Date: May 2009
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Oh please stick with it. Your colors are so yummy. At least you are doing the blocks with different colors to break it up a touch. Think of it this way, you are almost half way there!
But I too get bored with repetition. I am currently working on the PP border for my sawtooth cat quilt and it is getting a bit tedious. But I am sticking with it. I have other projects to help break up the monotony, like a handquilting project downstairs and pretty soon something on the longarm. I think it helps to have more than one project going at a time. But usually I have concurrent project in different stages. I try to stick with piecing one project until that piecing is done. But have been known to break up the piecing with a quickie, like a block swap on this board, or sewing up some crumb blocks or working on a scrap log cabin that is has been off and on for years. Mostly due to needing to build up the scraps and cut them into the needed logs.
But I too get bored with repetition. I am currently working on the PP border for my sawtooth cat quilt and it is getting a bit tedious. But I am sticking with it. I have other projects to help break up the monotony, like a handquilting project downstairs and pretty soon something on the longarm. I think it helps to have more than one project going at a time. But usually I have concurrent project in different stages. I try to stick with piecing one project until that piecing is done. But have been known to break up the piecing with a quickie, like a block swap on this board, or sewing up some crumb blocks or working on a scrap log cabin that is has been off and on for years. Mostly due to needing to build up the scraps and cut them into the needed logs.
#8
Originally Posted by mommamac
have you ever tried 'factory' style - do all of one step for all, then go to step 2, etc...
i cut all the pieces out in october. put the pieces for each block in a seperate baggie.
now i'm sewing the blocks together.
when i get 10 finished i trim all the extra thread, iron, and square up those ten.
then i start on another 10. -- it's a break i desperately need.
i'm going to go force myself to work on this. the sooner i get it done the sooner i can send it to charismah to get it quilted!! :D :lol: :D 8-) :D
#10
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Lafayette, Louisiana
Posts: 1,547
You're almost half way! But I know the feeling.... I was working on one that needed 49 blocks and I set it aside for a while. When I started back again about six months later the blocks were not the same size. I think I had gotten a new machine by then and I cut the strips the wrong size too.
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