Originally Posted by
gale
I hate to state the obvious but sitting in a field of hay is not what makes a farmer a farmer. My husband is a full time farmer. He repairs tractors, tunes them up, plants, harvests, hauls the grain, dries it, feeds some of it to the animals. He fixes things around the farm-equipment, fences, etc. He feeds livestock daily, plants, fertilizes and cuts hay, bales it. Hauls it, stacks it, etc. He never just "sits in a hay field".
at any rate, I quilt my own quilts so therefore I must be a quilter.
A friend of mine does most of that, but when harvest time comes, he hires it out. Someone else comes in with a monster sized machine and does the finishing work. (Ever see those monsters out in a wheat field side by side? It is just crazy!) He still considers himself a farmer.
Most who piece don't really sit around in a pile of fabric waiting for a pieced top to appear! Lol!
I do both. Sometimes I piece a top and send it out for quilting, and sometimes I quilt it myself. It depends on the size and what I think is needed for the project. I think of both as quilting.