Do you consider a panel to be a "cheater quilt"?
#41
I always thought a cheater quilt was a piece of fabric printed to look like a pieced quilt as opposed to a panel that is obviously a printed design. Someone recently referred to one of my projects as a cheater quilt after I'd added intricate borders to a panel. I wasn't trying to pass it off as if I'd created the center. And this person Is are quilter. Do I need to rethink my thinking?
#42
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Personally, I think that the only 'cheater' quilts are the ones you buy already made from another country that uses sweat shop labor. That is just my opinion.
As for panels, whole cloth, or any other printed fabric that you have to cut and sew together with another piece of fabric, whether it be a humongous panel or a small piece of fabric, you still have to sew it together, use batting, and somehow sew that together. As far as I am concerned, you have just made yourself a bonafide quilt. Some quilts are complicated and some quilts are simplified.
As for panels, whole cloth, or any other printed fabric that you have to cut and sew together with another piece of fabric, whether it be a humongous panel or a small piece of fabric, you still have to sew it together, use batting, and somehow sew that together. As far as I am concerned, you have just made yourself a bonafide quilt. Some quilts are complicated and some quilts are simplified.
#43
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I suspect the term cheater quilt is viewed by you as pejorative. Why should it be? I have helped quilt several quilts for friends that were printed quilt patterns. The four friends I helped hand quilt their printed tops were not interested in piecing. The finished quilts were lovely and served their purposes. I don’t know if the person who referred to your panel as a cheater quilt meant it in a negative way. Perhaps it was the only way she knew to refer to fabric with a printed design that was meant to be used whole rather than cut and pieced. I guess how we interpret words matters. If she had asked if it was a printed panel, would you have been offended? Maybe you should have said, It is a printed panel, isn’t it a lovely design? It is probably time to retire the term cheater quilt or cheater fabric.
#44
To me, a "cheater" quilt is the already quilted fabric you can buy. I have made many wall hangings using panels, but I have quilted them myself! In fact, I just finished 3 quilts for my niece's kids for Christmas and I used a panel for the back of each one (I added borders to "flesh" them out to the right size) You do you!
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Hey ya’ll, the term “cheater fabric” was what we always called the fabric that is printed to look like patchwork, some of the shops used to sell it for folks who wanted to learn/practice their quilting. I’ve seen a number of them that were quite beautiful by the time the quilter was done with them. It was a term/name for a specific type of print and not a reference to the character of person who bought it.
I think maybe your friend was not meaning to be pejorative, just confusing what I think of as a specific term for a specifit kind of print (one thta looks like pieced patchworkk rather than pictorial) with a panel.
Rob
I think maybe your friend was not meaning to be pejorative, just confusing what I think of as a specific term for a specifit kind of print (one thta looks like pieced patchworkk rather than pictorial) with a panel.
Rob
#46
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Oohhhh I get very angry when I hear things like this. By definition, your work is a quilt:
noun 1.a warm bed covering made of padding enclosed between layers of fabric and kept in place by lines of stitching typically applied in a decorative design. Your panel must be beautiful. Why else would someone criticize it other than jealousy? Down with quilt snobs!!!
noun 1.a warm bed covering made of padding enclosed between layers of fabric and kept in place by lines of stitching typically applied in a decorative design. Your panel must be beautiful. Why else would someone criticize it other than jealousy? Down with quilt snobs!!!
#47
I don't consider it cheating. I had a panel in my stash for a while. It was marching bands with sheet music. I thought I would do it for my sons' band director but I never did. A few years later I found it. The main panel had 76Trombones sheet music. I just happened to be costuming The Music Man at the local high school. I cut up the panel and made a lap quilt that was raffled off. It was a big hit.
#48
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I would consider any statements with the word cheater in it, that was made toward me, to be of ill intent as I see nothing positive in the word cheater.
Having said that, I also wouldn’t let it bother me since I’ve come to realize that most non-positive statements are really more about the person making them than about the recipient.
Having said that, I also wouldn’t let it bother me since I’ve come to realize that most non-positive statements are really more about the person making them than about the recipient.
#49
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Some of the cutest baby quilts I have gifted have started with a panel. I could never have made them as cute as they turned out if it wasn't for the panels. Nothing cheating about them, just creative I think.
#50
I believe they both are "convenience" quilts. My friend would never let me refer to a fabric like it was pieced as a cheater quilt...she thought it sounded negative. I like convenience because it does sound nicer. I guess a panel could be a convenience too since your center was conveniently alread done for you.
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