Originally Posted by lots2do
In my humble opinion, if someone makes a quilt following the pattern directions exactly, using the exact fabrics suggested, he/she is a quilter but not a quilting artist. An artist to me uses his/her imagination to come up with 'new' visions.
I agree with this as well..However, a new quilter,whether an artist at heart or not has to crawl before walking= following directions and patterns...
Yet I believe an artist at heart will have total tunnel vision ( like a movie that wont stop) playing over n over in her mind about what she will eventually create once she gets these blasted basic steps down lol