Originally Posted by wildyard
Gosh Rae, you make wonderful things and use beautiful fabrics. I don't have a longarm and know I never will. All that fancy quilting is not in my future because I can't afford to send anything out. Heck, I can barely afford to hit the thrift stores as much as I do, and certainly not as much as I'd like to, for adding to my stash.
But I just see that as one of the things that are a condition of my quilting and life. Like having steak every night, lol, it's not going to happen. I'm not going to let that take the joy out of the bean soup and cornbread tho, no way!!!
I do simple straight line and outline quilting on my regular sewing machine and I am happy with it. No one complains when I give them a quilt; not one single person!
Learning the quilt as you go techniques is a great suggestion as it makes things much easier.
Holding you close in my heart that you will be able to close your eyes to the things that you can't have so they don't steal your joy and pleasure from the things you do have and that you will be able to open your heart and mind once again to the fun and creativity to be found in the quilting we all so dearly love. Hugsssssss and peace for you, Linda
Thank you for opening my eyes to look past the temporary clouds, your words truly touched me ,thank you Wildyard, and thanks to every one that encouraged me through my "moment" The thing I think got me down was that I saved up money to buy batiks to make a special quilt and then realized it would never look good tied and I would not know how to begin to quilt it , Soooo, I think I will either sell those batiks or come up with something else!You all are great people!
This is the one ,The one that I HAD to do.The only quilt I ever went and bought all the fabrics for ,new and at the same time, boy was that costly !
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-156631-1.htm
I have not started mine yet,but think this is so beautiful, up to now I have done mostly scrappy.