Originally Posted by desertrose
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.
I totally understand. I also love handquilting and wholecloth designs. I can do piecing but whenever I see applique quilt designs I just pass it over I know I'd never finish it, it would be stuffed in a closet corner waiting to decay since moths wouldn't eat cotton...LOL
Go for having someone who loves appliqueing and it makes them happy to do it finish the appliques and you can complete the heirloom for the family to enjoy seeing. Hugs and happy hand wholcloth quilting. :thumbup:
I have all the blocks appliqued, I love doing that. (In fact, I used that pattern to start another set with different colored flowers). It's just the setting-up and piecing together of the blocks that I'm bad at.