Am I the only one
04-12-2011, 05:22 PM
#71
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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I'm with you on this one. I learned to quilt to duplicate the wonderful experience of sleeping under quilts at my Gramma's house as a child. I especially do not enjoy the heavy weight of some of the fabrics used as backing now, just not the same to me. I buckled under some quilt shop peer pressure and bought some very heavy watercolor fabric to back a buck a block quilt. Hate it-I have so much money invested and can't bring myself to finish the FMQ. I do like the large bold fabrics for curtains and purses though.
04-12-2011, 06:19 PM
#72
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Location: Farmington Hills, Michigan
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Originally Posted by ruck9085
That loves the old quilts? I just can't get into these new patterns. I like basic, old fashioned, scrap quilts like my granny made. I love the four patch and the Grandmother's Flower garden and the like. I can't get into the landscape quilts or the portrait quilts or even the Bargello's though I have to admit, I've seen some really gorgeous ones.
Also, I love bright colors, mostly reds, yellows and blues, and small print, like Calicoes, not huge florals.
So, am I just an old soul,or are there others like me?
Also, I love bright colors, mostly reds, yellows and blues, and small print, like Calicoes, not huge florals.
So, am I just an old soul,or are there others like me?
04-12-2011, 07:03 PM
#74
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Stony Creek NY
Posts: 216
I like the good quilt pattern I also like to sit and cut out my blocks I trace my pattern on the material and then cut the design I also tie my quilt's I don't think painting is make a quilt as a quilt goes just my though's
04-12-2011, 08:24 PM
#77
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Maryland
Posts: 264
You are not alone. Because my interest in art has always truned towards geometric shapes, I find I love the old patterns. I have a color one from the log cabin that I've sold, and have been asked to duplicate. [it'll never be the same] so cheer up there are a lot of us in the world who are comfortable with traditional shapes. My very first quilt was made from the left over material my mother saved from her sewing clothes for my seven sisters and brother and I. I was fifteen and thought all those scrape were just dryrotting in her material chest.
04-13-2011, 12:05 AM
#79
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: North Central Texas
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nope..not alone. I prefer the old patterns. Even go so far as making some of them the "old fashioned" way...you know, complete with templates, pencil and scissors!! I love the old patterns like Monkey Wrench, Shoo Fly, and Churn Dash.
I like to look at the newer patterns and artsy quilts, and on very rare occasions have made one. But always the pull is there back to the old patterns.
But truth be told, I keep my preference hush-hush. I have gotten some very disapproving looks from other quilters when I stated my preferences. ;)
I like to look at the newer patterns and artsy quilts, and on very rare occasions have made one. But always the pull is there back to the old patterns.
But truth be told, I keep my preference hush-hush. I have gotten some very disapproving looks from other quilters when I stated my preferences. ;)
04-13-2011, 08:43 AM
#80
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: British Columbia Canada
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I love the look of old quilts too. I have just finished making a 1930's feedsack quilt for our local quilt show that is in June. This is the second 1930 reproduction quilt I have made and I also love scrappy quilts.
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