Do you refer to your quilting as a "hobby"?
10-19-2011, 01:43 PM
#131
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Quilting is my passion also. If people want to call it a hobby, so be it. To me it is a form of art, self expression, even though we follow a pattern, we do contribute our own thought process as to placement, color, etc., so to me I am being an artist.
10-19-2011, 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by ghostrider
Not a hobby for me…it’s a sport. There’s the training, the competition, the marathon runs, the short sprints, the equipment purchases, the sore muscles, the scheduling, team meets and solo events, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat…definitely a sport.
10-19-2011, 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by leatheflea
I'm a quilter, I dont mend thats all I care about. You can call me whatever you want as long as you dont call me to fix your pants.
10-19-2011, 03:14 PM
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Hmmmm! Quilt making to our foremothers was not a "hobby" but a real neccesary part of their daily lives. They did it so their children and themselves would not die of the cold in the long winters they had to endure.
For most of us, we do it because we are carrying on a tradition. Is quilting a hobby? I suppose it is by definition but for me it is much more than that. I feel I am keeping a very special part of women's history alive and in doing so I am contributing my part to history!!!
For most of us, we do it because we are carrying on a tradition. Is quilting a hobby? I suppose it is by definition but for me it is much more than that. I feel I am keeping a very special part of women's history alive and in doing so I am contributing my part to history!!!
10-19-2011, 03:26 PM
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My husband always considered anything I did was for "fun". While I enjoy doing things and quilting it is also a lot of work. When he is doing something he likes to do he still calls it work. My grown kids just think of it as something mom does. I do consider a lot of the things we do as art.
10-19-2011, 03:40 PM
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Originally Posted by leatheflea
I'm a quilter, I dont mend thats all I care about. You can call me whatever you want as long as you dont call me to fix your pants.
I say amen to that!! :lol:
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