Originally Posted by
CookieZenmilk
if my seams don't match up, i color the fabric with a sharpie or magic marker.
i rotary cut towards myself instead of away from myself.
i don't always iron the fabric before i cut my fabric. i often see bowed strips but i "make it work"
i only change my needle if it breaks.
ANY & ALL of the above, but most of all - I quilt "FOR ME". I don't care if anyone else likes it, loves it or wants it. And I NEVER lose sleep over my quilting (unless I'm up sewing). I have always taken parts from one quilt and used on other quilts. I will make a quilt the size I want, so my math on a block is only SO/SO. Yet it always works out, because I will use the same measurements through. So the size of my blocks may not be just so, but it works and I have ALWAYS thought about our Grandmothers and Great Grandmothers - what did they know about measurements? They eyeballed each quilt - most of the time using ONLY what they had on hand - they couldn't run down to the LFS or LQS. So I'm more of a make do quilter.