Originally Posted by redquilter
Originally Posted by Blockhead
Hmmm - if you don't quilt your tops, how can you call yourself a quilter? A piecer, a patchworker yes, but a quilter no.
That is the cheating part - those who call themselves quilters, who never actually quilt.
That's not really fair and I have to take exception to your statements. I don't like disagreeing with people, but in this case I have to speak up. Many of us, because of time constraints, or health issues (or both) simply cannot do the quilting. Not that I personally wouldn't like to, but it's near impossible. If that's cheating, then how can one say "I've done the laundry" when the clothes are put into a machine and said machine does all the work? Is that cheating? How can we say we've done the dishes, when in fact, a machine washed them? It goes on and on. I admire and respect those who do their own quilting whether on a machine or by hand. I think those of us who do not/ cannot ought not be judged!
My statement was meant to be factual, not offensive or judgmental. I apologise to those who are offended. The laundry/dishes analogy is not relevant here, unless you label yourself a dishwasher or laundry worker. It's the label, not the process which is the issue for me.
I am a patchworker. I'm proud to be a patchworker and I aspire to one day being a quilter.
If I ever have someone else do the quilting on my pieced tops, it would not lessen my work on the quilt, but I would not be the quilter of that top. If I was to say I made the quilt, it would be true, if I say I quilted the quilt, it would be untrue.