Do you ever look at quilts on here and...
#11
I guess I'm just a little down as this horse quilt is kicking my rear. I bit off a lot with it! Machine applique, paper piecing and designing it on paper and it looking right when I make it has been so hard! And yesterday I spent as much time ripping seams out as I did making them. I measured and measured and the braid border was still not right! It is now but I was so frustrated. I think I may need a break from it today.....I look at it and even though its only the last two borders and they're easy I just don't want to do it.
#12
Originally Posted by ginnie6
I guess I'm just a little down as this horse quilt is kicking my rear. I bit off a lot with it! Machine applique, paper piecing and designing it on paper and it looking right when I make it has been so hard! And yesterday I spent as much time ripping seams out as I did making them. I measured and measured and the braid border was still not right! It is now but I was so frustrated. I think I may need a break from it today.....I look at it and even though its only the last two borders and they're easy I just don't want to do it.
#13
Nah. I really appreciate that folks make such beautiful artwork in fabric. My quilts are the type that are supposed to be used. (no offense meant to anyone).
I just wish that I had more time to finish the one I started. I'm hand-quilting that one. Oh, well - if I win the lottery, I will definitely have time for ALL of the stuff I want to do. :)
I just wish that I had more time to finish the one I started. I'm hand-quilting that one. Oh, well - if I win the lottery, I will definitely have time for ALL of the stuff I want to do. :)
#14
Aww Ginnie, I know. I literally have 16 ufos! A lot of $$ tied up there just sitting in a drawer or closet waiting to see the light of day. Take a break today, and remember what I always say, "My favolite color is DONE". I don't get to say that very much about my own stuff, though.
#15
Absolutely I do. Then I remind myself that with some patience I, too, can do them. Some quilts are harder than others, some use techniques I've yet to learn but none of them require a degree in rocket science or brain surgery. Even a beginner, with patience, the right instruction, and practice can make the most difficult of quilts. We can do the same pattern and mine might not look as good as your's but as long as they aren't side by side no one will know. LOL
#16
I've had days like that, where I spend more time ripping seams than I do sewing. And if I weren't selling the quilt to someone for a significant amount of money, or giving it to someone important to me, or planning to have it scrutinized by show judges, I'd probably let it go.
I walk by a wall hanging every day that has one open seam (because I didn't lay it out right when I was paper piecing), and it reminds me why it's worth fixing during construction.
I walk by a wall hanging every day that has one open seam (because I didn't lay it out right when I was paper piecing), and it reminds me why it's worth fixing during construction.
#17
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Originally Posted by ginnie6
just think that you are not really a quilter?
I know exactly what you mean.
#19
I Think Ditter hit the nail on the head, Learn To Love The Journey! That is the whole sum of everything we do in life, right? Quilting, cooking, gardening, raising a family, marriage.. Learn to love the journey. If it's ok Ditter, I am using your saying for my life now. I know if I put enough into aanything I do, and I enjoy doing it, whatever I do will be beautiful. Anyone agree?
#20
Ginnie,
You expressed my thoughts exactly -- I'm another person who doesn't consider herself in the same league with the quilters on this message board. I got the urge to start quilting because my grandmother and aunt (now aged 90 years) were lifelong quilters and I loved THEM (not the quilts). They made hundreds of quilts, all pieced on a treadle sewing machine and quilted by hand. None of them are works of art. I have such wonderful, happy memories of my grandmother and aunt when I see their quilts. Now, THAT is what makes a good quilter: lots of love poured into the quilts.
You expressed my thoughts exactly -- I'm another person who doesn't consider herself in the same league with the quilters on this message board. I got the urge to start quilting because my grandmother and aunt (now aged 90 years) were lifelong quilters and I loved THEM (not the quilts). They made hundreds of quilts, all pieced on a treadle sewing machine and quilted by hand. None of them are works of art. I have such wonderful, happy memories of my grandmother and aunt when I see their quilts. Now, THAT is what makes a good quilter: lots of love poured into the quilts.
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