Curiosity Question
#21
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Join Date: May 2010
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I love and admire all the quilts - from the scrappy string to the intricate paper-pieced medallion quilts. In a way, they reflect some of the personality of the piecer/quilter.
And I really admire a finished quilt! I am surrounded by so many UFO's that I must be an Alien!
And I really admire a finished quilt! I am surrounded by so many UFO's that I must be an Alien!
#22
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Small town in Northeast Oregon close to Washington and Idaho
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I'm taking a class on modern quilting and learning about "wonky". She's teaching how to do "wonky" very gently. At first, I thought I wouldn't like the modern quilting at all and now I love it and I thought for sure I wouldn't like the "wonky" and now I love it too. Boy, I love batiks now. What's going on with me? I'm changing. I'm liking a whole different kind of quilting now. I use to only like traditional. Now this modern quilting is something I'm really getting into. I just bought a bunch of solid colors, just what I need for this modern quilting. I would never have bought solids a year ago. It would have all been floral. I'm moving, I guess.
#23
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Texas
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I've never liked scrappy. If I can't see a pattern of some sort, it doesn't appeal to me at all. However, I do love crazy quilts, there seems to be some method to the madness in those that I like. Tastes change, so, who knows I might come to like scrappy, but for now I'm staying with blocks where I can see a pattern of some sort.
#24
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Join Date: May 2011
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I have made both the more traditional and the wonky and I have liked both. I really look at the color and composition of the quilts I look at (even of scrappy quilts) -- the ones I like seem to use the lights and darks or shades of two colors in a carefully thought out way. I am wowed by some of the landscape and portrait quilts I have seen -- and I am in awe of the applequed quilts. To me, all quilts are special given the amount of time and effort that the quilters have put into them, but I still have my favorites.
#25
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Jozefow, Poland
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I Stepping outside your box can tap into another part of your brain, and while you may not get hooked on something "wonky", it may have a positive effect on the traditional quilts you do create. Just like "muscle memory" is good for doing FMQ because the doodles and designs stay with you, exercising a new part of your brain can get things going in other ways.
I think that's one reason the Quilting Board is so successful. There are so many kinds of quilters here; there's no way you can be expected to love all of them, but being exposed to so many different creations can only be helpful.
Quilt on!
I think that's one reason the Quilting Board is so successful. There are so many kinds of quilters here; there's no way you can be expected to love all of them, but being exposed to so many different creations can only be helpful.
Quilt on!
#27
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: leland nc
Posts: 443
i am not a fan of string, selvage, wonky or patchy quilts. it is obvious to me that there is somewhat care in creating these, but they don't give the eye a place to rest. to me, they feel "scratchy" and irritating. i make more "thoughtful" patterns and do my best to make them attractive while learning new techniques.
#28
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Glenmoore, PA
Posts: 7,941
I was originally an apparel sewer, made clothes, wedding gowns, and lots of window treatments, duvets etc. I am still having great difficulty getting past the "seams MUST match" idea. Therefore I don't do scrappy or wonky well. I love the looks of the ones other people have made, I still have the "matchy matchy" mentality and am having a huge struggle with myself to get past that. I have been collecting my scraps faithfully, have made some dog beds with the snippets. One of these days I will get my courage up and do a really scrappy quilt. Right now the jelly roll strippy tops are what I enjoy. It is as close as I can get to scrappy so far.
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