Originally Posted by
dgreen
Does anyone else feel this way? I am a perfectionist and am so inspired by the art of quilting; however, my struggle is with the actual quilting part. After working so hard to piece a quilt together, it feels like such a letdown to stitch in the ditch on my little sewing machine. I have tried machine quilting on my home machine, but it is very limiting, and just can't look as good as I aspire it to look. Does anyone else feel like "what's the point of quilting if I don't have a longarm?", and what area do you focus on to substitute for the fancy quilting done on these machines. I don't mean to sound like a whiner, I just need another way to think about this. Maybe i should focus on hand-quilting....
While I admire the work done on a longarm, I don't think it is the be all, end all, if you know what I mean. I kind of enjoy the simple quilting such as stitch in the ditch too. I find it very fulfilling to have done the entire quilt by myself. I tried some FMQ on my last baby quilt and it wasn't too bad, just will take time!