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Old 07-09-2012, 11:47 AM
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Johanna Fritz
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I have evolved over the past 20 years (I am 45) that I have been quilting from: hand piecing and scissor-cut templates..to machine piecing and rotary cutting...to needle turn applique by hand...to art quilts and fusing...to hand dyeing, fusing and thread painting. As we learn as quilters, sometimes a project is worked on just to master a skill before you apply that skill to a pattern that might be more complex that you really want to make. Just because it is a UFO does NOT mean you need to finish it. If you learned something from the project, it is ok to move on. HOWEVER, if you do not finish anything you start, I think you are kidding yourself that you enjoy the shopping part more that the creating part. Maybe try smaller projects: fabric postcards, placements, IPAD covers, wall hangings etc. These can be completed more quickly. I always have 3 or 4 projects going at once because when I am sick of one, I need to go to the other, and then come back...but I always finish.
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