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#41
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Lansing, MI
Posts: 1,038
Tell DH you could get more completed if you had a long-arm (or at least a mid-arm). Then he could learn to do that part and you'd have more time to do the flimies. LOL
I have probably a dozen tops done but can't do the quilting on my machine nor can I afford to send out to a long-armer. So anything new I've been making have been quilt-as-you-go and am getting more completed. But I still have that dozen with no completion dates in sight.
I'm hoping to buy a Tin Lizzie 18 in the next couple of years. They run around $6000 which is more affordable than some of the high-end long-arms. I'd love to buy a Babylock Jewel (so I could have local support) but they run around $10K.
I have probably a dozen tops done but can't do the quilting on my machine nor can I afford to send out to a long-armer. So anything new I've been making have been quilt-as-you-go and am getting more completed. But I still have that dozen with no completion dates in sight.
I'm hoping to buy a Tin Lizzie 18 in the next couple of years. They run around $6000 which is more affordable than some of the high-end long-arms. I'd love to buy a Babylock Jewel (so I could have local support) but they run around $10K.
#42
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Middle Tennessee
Posts: 360
SWe feel your pain, everyday. I have a purple crazy quilt to finish, two to bind, a Marine Corps quilt to finish, and probably a couple of more. Oh yes, charity quilts to quilt. I picked up the needed material at Paducah, so there isn't any reason not to do it. My daughter is coming this weekend so nothing will get done now for sure. We have our priorities.
#45
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Woodmere, NY
Posts: 1,422
I agree with your husband on the need to get the lap quilts to the people in rehab...
The thought of having to drive 150 miles would upset me to no end.. I do appreciate the how close everything is where I am, and I go to a guy twenty miles away, bypassing three or four shops.. I'm wondering if you should by a machine online at overstocks or look for an old machine that you, or your husband can repair at home..
The thought of having to drive 150 miles would upset me to no end.. I do appreciate the how close everything is where I am, and I go to a guy twenty miles away, bypassing three or four shops.. I'm wondering if you should by a machine online at overstocks or look for an old machine that you, or your husband can repair at home..
#46
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Northern California mountains
Posts: 12,538
Well, one of "his" quilts has reached the flimsy stage (posted elsewhere). BTW, he read over my shoulder and said he had not PROMISED the quilts. He merely asked if they might want some. Lots of my UFOs are going to go to one charity or another. Typically, I have done quilts in categories: for family, for sale, for competition, for donation, for commission. Since I have a very firm local reputation, I'm sorta dropping out of competition and have ended the sale category. I quilt because it pleases me.
We now live in a mobile home. Before we moved, I kept hoping I could get a LA of my own with its own little house. Yesterday, While I was dealing with other issues, DH was drooling over a LA at the dealership. He said he would try to figure out how to make it work for us. I am too disabled to use the one that belongs to my guild.
We now live in a mobile home. Before we moved, I kept hoping I could get a LA of my own with its own little house. Yesterday, While I was dealing with other issues, DH was drooling over a LA at the dealership. He said he would try to figure out how to make it work for us. I am too disabled to use the one that belongs to my guild.
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#47
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 15,639
Oh no, I only work one thing at a time. I never get overwhelmed and I am never under the gun.....and apparently I lie a lot. lol
Did you agree to make the charity quilts? If so, those probably deserve to be in the top priority. The new pattern won't disappear. Why don't you leave that as a reward for having finished something?
Did you agree to make the charity quilts? If so, those probably deserve to be in the top priority. The new pattern won't disappear. Why don't you leave that as a reward for having finished something?
#48
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Holmen, WI
Posts: 6,459
I have something like 10 flimsies waiting for me to quilt them and a very large bunch of UFOs, not counting plans and WADs. DH is sorta breathing down my neck because he promised a stack of lap quilts to a local rehab hospital (not that I disagree with his intentions at all) Then last night I was playing around and came up with a new quilt pattern and I want to do it RIGHT NOW. Tell me I am not the only quilter here to overload herself.
#49
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Holmen, WI
Posts: 6,459
YOU MEAN THERE'S A CURE!?! Oh, please, please, please tellme where to get it! Or, if you can;t do that, how about a site where I can order some time & the ability to actually focus on one thing at a time (I'm worse than my puppy dog with a butterfly!)!!!! LOL!
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