Do you find yourself attracted to a specific style?
05-02-2009, 07:30 AM
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I like sampler quilt books cause you get your money worth with all the different quilt block patterns.
But I make all different kinds of piecework, dont like paper piecing.
Have not tried applique.
Hand quilting is too much work.
Someday may branch out and try other methods but for now there are so many patterns and so little time.
But I make all different kinds of piecework, dont like paper piecing.
Have not tried applique.
Hand quilting is too much work.
Someday may branch out and try other methods but for now there are so many patterns and so little time.
05-02-2009, 08:09 AM
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Originally Posted by JoanneS
I started with traditional quilts, very little applique. I've done quite a bit of paper piecing. For a while, I made watercolor quilts, and I have a LOT of 2" squares in my stash! I love designing my own quilts and playing around with traditional designs in non-traditional ways. I've done a few arty quilts. I've given away almost all of my quilts as wedding and baby gifts. I estimate I've made 100+. One of these days, I'm going to start making a list! I have a scrapbook of pictures of MOST of them. When I give one as a gift, I ask the giftee to take a picture of the quilt with themselves or the baby in it. They usually don't get around to doing it! But I always take a picture before it goes in the mail, so I have a record. I asked for a digital camera for Christmas several years ago, so I now take a picture at the last minute, and use it in a gift card with the quilt.
Hand quilting was my joy, but my thumbs no longer allow me to do it. I've had to learn how to do machine quilting - which (to my surprise) is much more difficult to master! I finally bought an embroidery machine last year, because I realized I could use the outline feature for quilting. THEN I saw a demo of 4D, and I bought it to design my own quilting designs. WHOOPEE! I've done a LITTLE free motion, mostly wavy lines and bubbles/pebbles and 5 pointed stars. Practice, practice practice - I keep telling myself.
05-02-2009, 01:41 PM
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Just caught up with this thread. I like to applique mostly, have tried paper piecing and got on fine with that too. Cannot for the life of me master cutting all those pieces up and then putting them together so that is definately not for me.
Like trying new things though and my thought for a future project is in Japanese Sashiko. There are so many different types of quilting that you just have to try some of them.
I also swore blind I would never hand quilt and I am just getting into that as well. :D
Elle
Like trying new things though and my thought for a future project is in Japanese Sashiko. There are so many different types of quilting that you just have to try some of them.
I also swore blind I would never hand quilt and I am just getting into that as well. :D
Elle
05-02-2009, 02:11 PM
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I like a little bit of everything. I tend to gravitate toward more traditional quilts. So I guess for me, it's more "style" and less what it actually is...
I do like alternating blocks and coming up with secondary designs... and tweaking anything to suit my own tastes...
I do like alternating blocks and coming up with secondary designs... and tweaking anything to suit my own tastes...
05-02-2009, 03:34 PM
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I have made one sampler quilt and loved it - would very happily do another, will one day. I have made many with just one type of block and love these too. Have done some applique and want to do more. No paperpiecing - doesnt' interest me much, never done a whole cloth before - not too sure I want to - do not like doing panels - well, haven't and just don't want to so far. I can honestly say i will never do an art quilt - absolutely NO interest in that - would like to do some stainglass (my husband does 'real' stainglass) and I'd like o do somehting for him.
05-02-2009, 07:23 PM
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there are a lot of things I am interested in trying, but I have already figured out, I will gravitate back to the samplers, and applique. I love doing quilts with pictures. I have seen a lot of beautiful quilts, with the same block, as long as the colors change, and I have one cut out, like that, but making the same thing over and over, gets tedious to me. I can do it, but if you don't have to, why torture yourself?/myself.
I like lots and lots of color!!!! :D
I like lots and lots of color!!!! :D
05-02-2009, 07:27 PM
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Yeah tall tanned and handsome....:-)....
oh I think you meant something else....It actually changes....one time I like something then I think I'd never do that and here I am doing that....go figure....guess that's what makes the world go round....:-)
oh I think you meant something else....It actually changes....one time I like something then I think I'd never do that and here I am doing that....go figure....guess that's what makes the world go round....:-)
05-03-2009, 05:52 AM
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I like traditional, usually bright/dark combinations, though I am trying to learn using light colors a bit more.
I got interested in quilting because of the angles and the colors, and finding my real color choices has not been successful, but I keep trying, positive that someday, I will be able to say "I Make XYZ colored quilts".
One of the threads I read, the lady said she had "COD" ... which is one of my things ... can get fixated on a lava lamp, for crying outloud!
The production work that I learned at the factory is very satisfying to me. When Elenor Burns tell me to cut out all the pieces of a quilt at one time - - I am SO there! But for the most part, I enjoy the sampler quilts because they tell a story.
I have this NEED, though, from time to time, to just grab a box, cut measurements from every piece of fabric in there, and just production sew until I reach the end of that box ... (HINT: If your fabric is safely stored in a container, do not be fooled into thinking that cutting five inches off every piece of fabric in the box will lessen the amount of fabric. The chances of your being able to make the scraps fit back into that container is nil! I am thinking that air causes the stash to expand, so don't let air get to your fabric <g>)
Anyway, I really like scrap quilts, but even there I try to maintain CONTROL! COntrol is very important ... and doing production sewing. A couple of months ago, I gave myself permission to actually sew the same thing over and over until I was at the end of every piece of fabric in that box ... just cut five inches off one piece of fabric ...
1064 flying geese later, I was a very happy COD person ... what am I going to do with them? It started because I wanted some scrappy flying geese for a project ... I didn't want to spend time trying to figure out how many I needed, so I just cut and stitched. Still haven't gotten to the original project, but did use the flying geese in a project I didn't even know was going to show up ... I know they will find a home, so I am not too worried.
So, where is this quilter? She likes traditional, colors, angles, scrappy, sampler ... and REALLY likes sewing the same thing over and over for a couple of weeks at a time. Other than that - - she seems normal! LOL
LOts of plans, life is good!
I got interested in quilting because of the angles and the colors, and finding my real color choices has not been successful, but I keep trying, positive that someday, I will be able to say "I Make XYZ colored quilts".
One of the threads I read, the lady said she had "COD" ... which is one of my things ... can get fixated on a lava lamp, for crying outloud!
The production work that I learned at the factory is very satisfying to me. When Elenor Burns tell me to cut out all the pieces of a quilt at one time - - I am SO there! But for the most part, I enjoy the sampler quilts because they tell a story.
I have this NEED, though, from time to time, to just grab a box, cut measurements from every piece of fabric in there, and just production sew until I reach the end of that box ... (HINT: If your fabric is safely stored in a container, do not be fooled into thinking that cutting five inches off every piece of fabric in the box will lessen the amount of fabric. The chances of your being able to make the scraps fit back into that container is nil! I am thinking that air causes the stash to expand, so don't let air get to your fabric <g>)
Anyway, I really like scrap quilts, but even there I try to maintain CONTROL! COntrol is very important ... and doing production sewing. A couple of months ago, I gave myself permission to actually sew the same thing over and over until I was at the end of every piece of fabric in that box ... just cut five inches off one piece of fabric ...
1064 flying geese later, I was a very happy COD person ... what am I going to do with them? It started because I wanted some scrappy flying geese for a project ... I didn't want to spend time trying to figure out how many I needed, so I just cut and stitched. Still haven't gotten to the original project, but did use the flying geese in a project I didn't even know was going to show up ... I know they will find a home, so I am not too worried.
So, where is this quilter? She likes traditional, colors, angles, scrappy, sampler ... and REALLY likes sewing the same thing over and over for a couple of weeks at a time. Other than that - - she seems normal! LOL
LOts of plans, life is good!
05-03-2009, 05:59 AM
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I just got done going through Elenor Burns' new book: Stars Across America.
I thought one of the profiles would fit into this thread:
Carrie Hall
Carrie Hall started collecting patterns during WW I. She organized her collection into scrapbooks and evnelopes, and began stitching a fabric block of each pattern, eventually reaching a total of 850. A book, The ROmance of the Patchwork Quilt in America, features photos of Carrie Hall's quilt blocks.
I'm sure I have a lot of UFOs ... WIPs ... etc. We may just have a museum in our houses! LOL
While she was doing each block, she was also running a dressmaking business ... so, <g>
I thought one of the profiles would fit into this thread:
Carrie Hall
Carrie Hall started collecting patterns during WW I. She organized her collection into scrapbooks and evnelopes, and began stitching a fabric block of each pattern, eventually reaching a total of 850. A book, The ROmance of the Patchwork Quilt in America, features photos of Carrie Hall's quilt blocks.
I'm sure I have a lot of UFOs ... WIPs ... etc. We may just have a museum in our houses! LOL
While she was doing each block, she was also running a dressmaking business ... so, <g>
05-03-2009, 06:39 AM
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I love them all but I have a tendency to take the older type patterns and then add my own twist to them. I've painted on them, used my computer for pictures of family or other things for memory quilts. I made a quilt for my middle grandson with dogs (Aussies) cause he was so nuts about them. I downloaded pictures from a breeder with their permission--I've been downloading pictures of John Deer tractors for my oldest grandson as he has a love for them to make him a quilt. I like designing my own quilts, but will use a pattern once in a while.
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