Bit off more than I can chew?!?
#11
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Ontario, Canada
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I figure my material needs out before hand. I make a little sketch of the design just to make sure I've got all the fabric requirement correct. I buy the fabric and usually add 1/2 yd/m extra. I then cut enough to do the first block, starch, sew, iron and see how it looks. I like instant feedback and I can also make any changes before cutting all my material. Most of the time my pattern and material look great and I continue, 1 block at a time. I have had to occasionally switch out the placement or even a material if the block doesn't look like I want it to. Starching, ironing and cutting all the material would bore me and my sholder/elbow can't take doing all the rotary cutting at once anymore.
#12
I had the same thing happen to me last week when my DH was out of town. I couldn't get in the mood so I worked on other things instead. Clean the kitchen pantry, emptied dead plants from hanging baskets on the deck, cleaned the refrigerator, gathered things for Goodwill. No sewing done but at least when he returned I didn't feel like I had wasted the days.
#15
My desire to see how the quilt will look inspires me to forge ahead with the cutting. Following a pattern makes it go faster as someone has all the fabric requirements listed. Making up my own pattern slows me down.
Just hang in there and you will be sewing before you know it.
Just hang in there and you will be sewing before you know it.
#17
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 37
I know what you mean. When you don't have time to sew you think of all kinds of things you want to do if you only had the time, but when you do have the chance to sit down at you machine it seems your motivation to get started has disappeared and I'm slow too so when I do start a project seems like I'll never finish. It doesn't sound like it but I do really love to sew.
#19
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
Posts: 1,649
Your dilemma reminds me of a few years ago when I was trying to teach our great granddaughter to sew. We were working on an apron for her mother. But she said she wanted to learn to make some clothes for herself. So we were going through the steps of using a pattern. After we got the pattern ready to use she looked at me and said, "When does the fun start?" Everything has to be fun nowadays.
#20
I figure my material needs out before hand. I make a little sketch of the design just to make sure I've got all the fabric requirement correct. I buy the fabric and usually add 1/2 yd/m extra. I then cut enough to do the first block, starch, sew, iron and see how it looks. I like instant feedback and I can also make any changes before cutting all my material. Most of the time my pattern and material look great and I continue, 1 block at a time. I have had to occasionally switch out the placement or even a material if the block doesn't look like I want it to. Starching, ironing and cutting all the material would bore me and my sholder/elbow can't take doing all the rotary cutting at once anymore.
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07-23-2012 09:23 AM