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Old 07-28-2010, 08:16 PM
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Well, I almost fit. 69, and actually have a smallish sewing room and another room I use for cutting and measuring and storing books and magazines as well as other asundry items not related to quilting. Also use it for wrapping presents, etd. Don't quite the $$ in tools yet, although my 2 new sewing machines certainly upped the ante. Where do patterns fit in?. The material I am probably under yet, but have only been quilting for a couple of years.
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Old 07-28-2010, 09:05 PM
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guess i need to get busy to make the average grade.
i'm 15 years below the age. have slowly been taking over the formal living room for sewing. (it has never been used as a formal living room) Including the piano in my sewing room i might have $3500 in equipment. No way near that amount in stash. Hubby would cut up my favorite credit card if i had more then $1000 in fabric laying around waiting to be quilted.
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Old 07-28-2010, 09:33 PM
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Well over 62, do have my own sewing room but no way do I have that much money invested in equipment and supplies or in fabric. I would if I had the room to store it and the money to purchase it with. LOL
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Old 07-28-2010, 09:43 PM
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age coming on 51 in a hurry have been sewing for 40 plus years, actual quilting just the past 5 or 6 years. As for space i have material, machines , and accessories in every room of the house including the bathroom where i store finished tops in vaccum sealed bags. material replacement cost at todays prices is very seriously close to 40k. DH is starting to protest when i bring in any thing new even if it is reclcled item, not that it will stop me (lol)
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Old 07-28-2010, 09:47 PM
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I thought I was average, but according to these stats I am 'below average' across the board.
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Old 07-29-2010, 12:21 AM
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Yes I am and will be getting another Sewing machine at the first week in December and getting more fabric from a shop that is coming to my quilt group next Wednesday.
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Old 07-29-2010, 12:23 AM
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no we are not renegades just like to work outside the box when it comes to quilting.
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Old 07-29-2010, 02:24 AM
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Very close--in all categories!
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Old 07-29-2010, 03:02 AM
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This is me....
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Old 07-29-2010, 03:56 AM
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I've been quilting for 2 yrs. I'm 65 yrs. old. I sew in a spare bedroom and keep supplies and fab. there. I bought a Janome, rather basic sewing machine which I love. I've made about 5 quilts, taken a quilting class for 5 weeks. Two of the quilts still have to be batted and backed. They're beatiful tops, but what is it about the final steps of completing a quilt that I read so many are guilty of. Is it a psychological "thing" or what. I truly want to know what it really is: why so many quilt tops are yet to be made into the final sandwich?
Also, oh boy! One of my unfinished projects is a Yellow Brick Road pattern of batiks and other complementary fabrics. Then I purchase some lime Minkee for the backing. No batting necessary I was advised. So I stitched in the ditch....A very hard technique for me to accomplish. I used a walking foot, too. I fail in keeping my stitching right in the ditch. Frustrating. I've ripped out hundreds of stitches. Any advice on sewing straight stitches in a ditch???????????
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