The Future Is Now; How Do You Integrate New Discoveries Within Your Own Quilting
My last thread’s topic
Returning To The Quilting/Garment Sewing Industry After A Long Time-Or Not
seemed to help made me think about how I integrate new ideas into my own sewing/quilting habits over the years. I turned inward and seemed to finally “get” the real happening or meaning of where the true proper place where quality sewing/quilting should take place now and in the foreseeable future. It’s where the consumer always actually is-within the home environment itself rather than a semi or completely automated factory.
I see & utilize the three “T”s every time I work within my own personal sewing nook. Or many years ago, within the fashion industry itself. These three activities are:
Technique The methods I employ in order to create the product I envision.
Technology Generally the machines as old as a treadle sewing machine to the latest (computerized sewing machine) in order to more quickly and efficiently design & create the product It usually means other high tech devices being used like anything from a laptop to a smartphone incorporated as well.
Take Out (or Contract/Send out) an usually unfinished creation product to someone/somewhere else to finish it. This means anything from long arm quilting to heat press (screen printing/embroidery/beading images onto cloth.
The most important one I employ is utilizing and keeping up with the latest techniques. It’s relatively inexpensive involving using simple tools (i.e. sewing/quilting notions) or cloth manipulation (i.e. 5 & 10 Minute Blocks) to get the desired results. Technology is using one or both of my computers and a computerized sewing machine to get consistent professional results in a far more quickly way never before possible. The only thing I send out to another place is my need to heat press beads onto cloth. Can’t afford long arm quilting to finished my quilts. That’s a luxury for a lucky few.
I am greatly saddened by the accelerating automation of the typical sewing/quilting factories. The human touch and input will be vastly missed even though most people won’t be very aware of or might even could care less about this massive change.
Now for the rest of you. How do you incorporate all these wonderful ways of expressing yourselves? Do you adopt new ways of quilting or sewing or do you stick to the tried and true?
Do Tell!
Last edited by Iona D.; 01-26-2018 at 08:13 PM.