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02-09-2008, 10:03 PM
#11
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: East Texas
Posts: 594
Hi Eliza, welcome aboard! I was from the DFW area but have been here in East Texas for the last 4 years. You sound really motivated and ready to go! I admire you for wanting to learn to hand quilt. My mom hand quilts all of her quilts but I machine quilt (I'm just now learning how to do more than stitch in the ditch!) One of these days, I do want to learn to hand quilt also. Hope you enjoy the message board here!
02-10-2008, 02:54 AM
#12
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
Posts: 182
Eliza,
I am sure you will enjoy this board. It is nice to be able to talk about quits with folks who understand.
re: hand quilting being a lost art...I am predominantly a hand quilter. In then past ten years or so I have watched machine quilting become much more popular. I have also seen the quality of machine quilting improve, becoming an art form in itself. So I am teaching myself machine quilting. My output has increased. I think this is why machine quilting has become so popular. People want a finished product in less time. But I think there is a satisfaction that comes from hand quilting that I don't get from machine quilting.
I am sure you will enjoy this board. It is nice to be able to talk about quits with folks who understand.
re: hand quilting being a lost art...I am predominantly a hand quilter. In then past ten years or so I have watched machine quilting become much more popular. I have also seen the quality of machine quilting improve, becoming an art form in itself. So I am teaching myself machine quilting. My output has increased. I think this is why machine quilting has become so popular. People want a finished product in less time. But I think there is a satisfaction that comes from hand quilting that I don't get from machine quilting.
02-10-2008, 09:02 AM
#13
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: N61° 6.1839', W149° 52.0138'
Posts: 1,211
Welcome!!!!!!!
I have hand quilted only a few quilts. Not my strong area. Too little patience. I love doing the piecing, the color selection, everything up to the end. Of course, getting something quilted is extremely expensive, so I have a few quilt tops laying around, waiting their turn.
M
I have hand quilted only a few quilts. Not my strong area. Too little patience. I love doing the piecing, the color selection, everything up to the end. Of course, getting something quilted is extremely expensive, so I have a few quilt tops laying around, waiting their turn.
M
02-10-2008, 11:38 AM
#14
Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: IN originally
Posts: 70
hello and welcome...
I have only handquilted - just learning to use my machine for quilting. Love the look of hand quilting - but the speed of machine!! I will always hand quilt something - so relaxing for me - but I'm trying to talk my husband into a quilting machine... maybe one day.
I have only handquilted - just learning to use my machine for quilting. Love the look of hand quilting - but the speed of machine!! I will always hand quilt something - so relaxing for me - but I'm trying to talk my husband into a quilting machine... maybe one day.
04-27-2008, 09:24 PM
#18
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: other side of the black stump, Perth Western Australia
Posts: 1,902
welcome and it is nice to see others notice that there are lots of things that are dying out due to our hectic life styles from baking bread to making jams and ofcourse handquilting. I try to do my little bit when i have time as enjoy all above including growing some vegies but it is a juggling act trying to do it all so i have times where i dont grow vegies and bake and handquilt and other times where i do the other things...
04-28-2008, 04:50 PM
#20
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: West Texas
Posts: 58
Hi all -- I was surprised to suddenly hear from so many of you -- I thought I was the only one on this board and it was lonely!!! I have been practising on my hand quilting and still have a long way to go!!! I love it still and hope that one day I will be able to make it as natural as some play the piano!!! he he! right now the piano (of course) needs tuning!
You may have heard about the trouble in West Texas with a Mormon group that practices polygamy and had it's children removed -- one of the ladies in our town had the ambition to get us all together to make a quilt for each of the children and I have been tying quilts like crazy!!! it's much easier than hand quilting!!! We still haven't completed the goal but will continue working on it until we do -- I think it's 306 quilts!!! It's been fun and challenging!!!
We had rain over the weekend and everything looks green! We have had Hot and Hotter weather so it was a nice relief!!! I hope that I can get back to my own projects which I have decided to make a double wedding ring quilt!!!! I have all sorts of ideas but this is the one that keeps coming up!!!
I am also working on my Dear Jane but it's a lot of work for those 4 inch blocks!!! I enjoy it and may take it on as a hand pieced project that I can take with me and work on when I have to wait.
Gas prices and fabric prices are going up and I will be spending more time at home -- I will enjoy that part -- but one can only eat so much peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!!! Hopefully I will be so caught up in my sewing it won't matter!!! I ordered some thread from an on-line source and I got it today!!! I am getting prepared for the days that all I have is time and no money -- which will be ..... NOW!!!
good to hear from you all -- let me know how you are and what u are up to !!! I will get some pictures up of the homefront and of some of the quilts we have completed and some of the WIP!
prickly!
You may have heard about the trouble in West Texas with a Mormon group that practices polygamy and had it's children removed -- one of the ladies in our town had the ambition to get us all together to make a quilt for each of the children and I have been tying quilts like crazy!!! it's much easier than hand quilting!!! We still haven't completed the goal but will continue working on it until we do -- I think it's 306 quilts!!! It's been fun and challenging!!!
We had rain over the weekend and everything looks green! We have had Hot and Hotter weather so it was a nice relief!!! I hope that I can get back to my own projects which I have decided to make a double wedding ring quilt!!!! I have all sorts of ideas but this is the one that keeps coming up!!!
I am also working on my Dear Jane but it's a lot of work for those 4 inch blocks!!! I enjoy it and may take it on as a hand pieced project that I can take with me and work on when I have to wait.
Gas prices and fabric prices are going up and I will be spending more time at home -- I will enjoy that part -- but one can only eat so much peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!!! Hopefully I will be so caught up in my sewing it won't matter!!! I ordered some thread from an on-line source and I got it today!!! I am getting prepared for the days that all I have is time and no money -- which will be ..... NOW!!!
good to hear from you all -- let me know how you are and what u are up to !!! I will get some pictures up of the homefront and of some of the quilts we have completed and some of the WIP!
prickly!
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