Do you dislike traditional quilting
02-11-2011, 09:49 PM
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I enjoy making up my own designs and usually use off white thread on top, I just practice, maybe I echo the blocks or do leaf designs in the borders, I'm not great at it, still trying those straight lines but if you don't try you can't cry. the reciever of my quilts can find thier name in it somewhere, they love the idea.
02-12-2011, 02:20 AM
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Originally Posted by bamamama
I'm made some traditional quilts but my favorites where the wimsical ones where I started with a theme and added all the details I could think of to tell a story. I started making my grandson an airplane quilt and before I was finished in addition to airplanes it has a runway, flight school complete with resturant, a tower, a gas pump small planes parked on the tarmack, larger planes in the flight pattern waiting to land...lightning bolts in the sky...etc, etc.
02-12-2011, 05:54 AM
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I'm not particularly fond of traditional quilting although I admire those that have gone that route. I think of fabric as paint to create something and not be tied down to rules on how it is to be used just as one would with paper crafting, inks, stamps and such.
I am new to the quilting scene and properly will never make what is coined a traditional quilt but I will make quilts as time goes by. I also am more of an abstract geometric funky kind of person when it comes to art. To many folks they may think it doesn't make any sense nor has any rhyme or reason but that's the way I like it.
So I guess I'm more into applique, or some form of crazy quilting than traditional quilting. It's not saying I would not create traditional blocks for trades and such but I seriously doubt I would make a full traditional quilt.
I am new to the quilting scene and properly will never make what is coined a traditional quilt but I will make quilts as time goes by. I also am more of an abstract geometric funky kind of person when it comes to art. To many folks they may think it doesn't make any sense nor has any rhyme or reason but that's the way I like it.
So I guess I'm more into applique, or some form of crazy quilting than traditional quilting. It's not saying I would not create traditional blocks for trades and such but I seriously doubt I would make a full traditional quilt.
02-12-2011, 08:45 AM
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clsurz...
You sound like you might really enjoy crazy quilting...no rules, no right or wrong way to quilt...Most people think when I talk about crazy quilting, that I am making bed size quilts...but crazy quilting lends itself to any pattern you wish to make, skirts, vests, purses, etc. check out my site and see what I mean! I bet Georgia's weather is a far cry from Idaho's!!!http://www.flickr.com/photos/52086995@N00/
You sound like you might really enjoy crazy quilting...no rules, no right or wrong way to quilt...Most people think when I talk about crazy quilting, that I am making bed size quilts...but crazy quilting lends itself to any pattern you wish to make, skirts, vests, purses, etc. check out my site and see what I mean! I bet Georgia's weather is a far cry from Idaho's!!!http://www.flickr.com/photos/52086995@N00/
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