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Help! I am soooooooo slow

Old 11-04-2010, 08:45 PM
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Thank you all for encouraging me by letting me know I am not the only one...makes me feel better and releaves some pressure.
I love to create...and play...spend lots of time hunting for just the right fabric...but so far I have not been disappointed with a single thing I have ever made.
I know I am a "little" OCD....and ADD...
If any of you have some quick anythings...please share.
Thanks again for confessing and sharing...LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 11-04-2010, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by oldhag
I am slow. I cut slow, I piece slow, I Fmq slow...no peddle to the metal for me. I set no deadlines so I don't have to rush. Any other way would take the fun out of it for me.
we must be almost twins! I just don't fmq--I handquilt which in itself is s-l-o-w...
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Old 11-04-2010, 08:59 PM
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I sure don't quilt fast. It takes me time to piece the top and even more to quilt them. I wait til winter to quilt. I piece all summer.
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Old 11-04-2010, 09:17 PM
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Glad to hear that I'm not the only one. Frankly, it doesn't bother me if
some can whip up a quilt in a day. I just enjoy the process whenever I have
the time and I'm in the mood. When I'm not in my sewing room I'm here
reading and drooling over what others have made. Maybe I should call this
quilting with my eyes. LOL
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Old 11-04-2010, 09:40 PM
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I usually get bogged down between planning and finishing the piecing.
A couple of years ago I took a top to my sister's friend when she started quilting for others. She was concerned when she couldn't get it done quickly (for medical reasons). I told her it took ten years from piecing the blocks to putting them together, another ten months to get the border on and buy backing, I shouldn't fuss if it took her ten weeks to quilt it! ROFL
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Old 11-04-2010, 09:41 PM
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Are you kidding?? I've been accused of taking the slow to China on some of my projects. I plod along, they get done, I'm relaxed. I figure I'm saving up the energy for those few projects that require a deadline. Then I'm Johnny on the Spot, as they say.
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Old 11-04-2010, 10:08 PM
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Originally Posted by sumcoop
Thank you all for encouraging me by letting me know I am not the only one...makes me feel better and releaves some pressure.
I love to create...and play...spend lots of time hunting for just the right fabric...but so far I have not been disappointed with a single thing I have ever made.
I know I am a "little" OCD....and ADD...
If any of you have some quick anythings...please share.
Thanks again for confessing and sharing...LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How about the 10 minute block? Once the squares are cut, it really only takes 10 minutes! Here is the tutorial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbTHlGGKMPM
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Old 11-04-2010, 11:13 PM
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I think in our fast moving time today we all forgot being patient somehow. I am also a very unpatient person! But I must say that hand quilting taught me to wait patiently until my work is finished and to stick to it. I enjoy the process as much as the finished quilt.

I know - many of you enjoy the designing, piecing, collecting fabrics etc. - but don't like the quilting. Piecing and quilting are two different techniques and both have so many possiblities and a wide range for being creative. But it takes it's time.
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Old 11-05-2010, 01:23 AM
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Oh my.....there's 2 of us? :-)

Originally Posted by sumcoop
I am envious of all of you who whip out projects so quickly.
Am I the only one that takes days, months, and years to finish what I start. The piecing is not a problem or the putting together the tops...but then I get bogged down. Any quick fixes?
Thanks for listening.
Susan
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Old 11-05-2010, 06:04 AM
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I am as slow as molasses in February. It usually takes me a long time to finsh my quilts. The ones I hand quilt are literally years in the making. It usually takes me a few months to piece a top (including the cutting). I like more complex designs. If I piece the back too I usually go more simple but that takes a few weeks. Now that I have a longarm I know the quilting part will go a lot faster for non hand quilted quilts. But even so, my first quilt has been on the rack for several weeks. I really only have time to work on them on the weekends. Sometimes I can squeeze in the odd hour during the week. My hand quilting is done when watching TV in the evenings but I don't always have the energy nor the motivation to work on it every evening.
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