Originally Posted by KyKat
Originally Posted by bearisgray
I like your choices of fabrics - and the applique work is lovely.
Have you done some "practice piecing"?
If you can guide your machine that nicely on the applique work, I would think you could learn to guide your machine on seam lines.
However, if you would rather NOT do that, it makes as much sense to have someone else piece it as to have someone else quilt it.
If I understood the narrative in one of Kaffe Fasset's books - he did the designing and someone else did all the piecing.
Yes, I have pieced several, but I don't enjoy it, and I am the first to admit I'm not good at it. My seams are uneven and my corners are bunched. . . . I just don't like to do it. I even hand-bind my quilts.
The applique is hand applique, not machine. I would much rather do hand work than machine. I love to hand quilt and my favorite thing to do is whole-cloth quilts, or quilts with large expanses of plain fabric that I can decorate with quilting.
And looking at your avatar you are a very very good hand quilter! Send it out and get to the fun stuff!!