Originally Posted by Elizabeth "Liz"
I like the look of a scrappy quilt, but I can not seems to rap my mind around how to make one. At this time in my early quilting life, I have to have a pattern a plan and my colors must blend in a way that works in my mind. I hope that one day the light bulb will go off in my head and I will be able to understand and make a scrappy quilt.
You and I are opposite then.... I'm a new sewer let alone quilter and I cannot wrap my mind around a "cookie cutter" pattern but can sit here and take a pile of fabrics and just start sewing them together and as I go along I start putting the pieces in different directions, different cuts, and such. I visualize it as I go along and it just comes together.
As a new quilter my very first three tops have been crazy patchwork scrappy ones.
I think folks like me who are more into semmatry, goemetrics and chaotic seem to be able to just do such.
I don't think there is any correct way to create a quilt....beauty is in the mind of the creator and some will love it as well and others won't simply because it's not there fortay.
Some folks like structure and work very well with traditional and contemporary type quilting and other refuse to be bound by structure and will just create there own without a pattern.
Truthfully anything anyone creates is beautiful to them and to others. What is nice about this craft is you have freedom to do it your way.......what makes you feel comfortable and what one likes.
As the saying goes different strokes for different folks and this is so true in this art form of quilting.