hi i am new to quilting and love to read everyones comments each morning.i pick up new things from here.i told my girl friend i was quilting and she said if your dont hand quilt then its called a comforter not a quilt .what say you guys?here from fl

Welcome! I always thought a comforter is what you buy at the store. A quilt can be sewn by hand or machine. So, you are a quilter. jmo :)

thank you! kinda what i thought but wasnt sure.

Hello and welcome from Ontario.

Hi and welcome from Lakeland, Florida!!

welcome!

Hello and welcome from Nevada!

Hello and welcome from Arkansas! I have to agree comforters are what you purchase from the store. I machine quilt all of mine or tie them. It still makes me a quilter.

The difference between a quilt and a comforter is that a quilt is pieced, where a comforter is not. Go to the bedding dept of most any store and look at the comforters. None are pieced, but made from all one BIG piece of fabric.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Hello, welcome and happy quilting from Germany!

Well, my quilts are not pieced - except the seams where I sew length of fabric together - because I make handquilted wholecloths. I also call them quilts! ;)

I always thought of a comforter as a quilt with thick batting purchased at the store

Hi from Michigan.....comforters in our house were always super puffy things bought in a store, quilts are homemade and not as puffy.

Hi and Welcome from NC!

I agree!

Welcome from MI

Welcome from Michigan. :)

Welcome to the board from Southern California!!!!

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Hello and welcome from Ontario Canada

welcome from se TX

Welcome from Kansas

Hello and welcome from Michigan!!

Welcome from a Florida snowbird from northeast Ohio. I've always understood that a comforter is made with really high batting and isn't as large as a quilt. It usually doesn't hang as far down on the bed. I make my quilts on a husqvara Designer II quilting and embroidery machine because I have nerve damage in my right hand. They're for my grandkids and they love them.
I'm curious why you picked the nickname of Wildfire. Wildfire is the name of the dance team that all 5 of my granddaughters have been since 1993. Now my great granddaughter is doing dance too.

Hi and Welcome from the NW Florida panhandle!

Welcome from San Gabriel, California

Welcome from MA

Quilts are made with love.
Comforters usually have a tag attached that says
"made in ________".

Welcome from Tallahassee, FL.

Quilts can give comfort, but a comforter can not quilt!!

Who cares really? What matters is that whatever it is called and however it is made (machine or hand), it is made with love. Store bought is not made with love.

PS Welcome to the board. Hope you find it as informative and friendly as I have.

Hello, and welcome from Michigan!

wildfire has been my internet name every since i got my first computer,,,,,,,,,,,i guess from the the song wildfire

Hello from Western Mountain Maryland !!

whatever they are called, we all make works of love, and art

thanks for all the nice welcomes ,,,people here are great

Welcome, QUILTER, from northeast Georgia! :)

Welcome from Lake Havasu City, AZ. Your friend just needs to be educated on what a quilter is. I thought they invented sewing machines and long-arm quilters so we can do more and more quilts!

HA! I think this falls into the sofa is a couch catagory! Comforter is just another word for the same thing.

A quilt is the process of joining layers of fabric together through stiching, right? Well a comforter is the same thing! just plusher, thicker, or with less stitching.
I say a thick quilt is a comforter. I just see it as a tomAto, tomato sort of thing!!

I always figured that a comforter is tied and a quilt is quilted. Jan

Welcome from Ireland