Quilting Confessions
#31
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Ohio
Posts: 2,077
I usually prefer working alone. However, due to a situation beyond our control, we found out Monday that ours would be a homemade Christmas for our 6 adult children. Hubs jumped in yesterday and helped me start working on gifties for our kids. We had a blast together! At one point, we had 2 longarms and an embroidery machine all going at once. Looking forward to doing it again today!
#32
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: new york state
Posts: 10,244
I am the same way. The group motivates me to finish an otherwise UFO. And I love the ideas we give each other. Iam also happy to be in my warm cozy sewing room alone during the long cold winte nights.
I tend to get really motivated right after I've been to a 'sewing' day with my closest friends. We talk, we laugh and of course we eat and it really gets me pumped up. I go home and it's like I'm on a mission for a few days. Wish I could bottle some of it to use when I am particularly unmotivated.
#34
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Clay Springs AZ
Posts: 3,229
I have never had the chance to quilt with a friend or group.
Taking classes is way to expensive so always quilt alone.
The group I belong to dosnt quilt when we meet, just visit, talk quilting, and show and tell.
Taking classes is way to expensive so always quilt alone.
The group I belong to dosnt quilt when we meet, just visit, talk quilting, and show and tell.
#35
Super Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Southern Indiana
Posts: 5,052
I meet the first Sat. of each month with a group of my friends, at the library. We sew all day from 9 to 4 and everyone brings food. We are all making the same quilt pattern but each of us is using our own fabric choices. Its amazing how different fabrics can change the look of a pattern. Anyway sometimes we take road trips and travel the area going to different Quilt Shops. I really enjoy our time together. Sometimes I dont get alot done but thats ok, I enjoy the fellowship of being with other quilters.
#37
It is a joy for me to drive 90km to a group which is stimulating, friendly and productive as my local group is cliquey, negative and snobbishly selective. It is necessary and welcome part of keeping myself socially healthy and stops me from producing the "same old stuff" all of the time. The contact has forced me to greatly improve in my work and to enjoy every bit of it.
#38
It is a joy for me to drive 90km to a group which is stimulating, friendly and productive as my local group is cliquey, negative and snobbishly selective. It is necessary and welcome part of keeping myself socially healthy and stops me from producing the "same old stuff" all of the time. The contact has forced me to greatly improve in my work and to enjoy every bit of it.
#40
I'm very much a solo person. My quilting is the same. I do belong to a Guild but I get more from the smaller group I attend. It's much more social. I look forward to going down to my studio and working as long as I like, every opportunity I have to do so. Sometimes I look up and 3 or 4 hours have passed.
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