How Many Are Self Taught?
#131
I have never taken quilt classes as I learned from my Mother and Grandmother when I was 7 years old. I wasn't allowed to cut blocks but did a lot of hand sewing of the blocks together. Then came the old Singer tredal sewing machine and it was the best machine for sewing quilts together and that is when I started makeing quilts and sewing my own clothes. Got good exercise while sewing....heheheh! The sewing machine is still in the family and we pass it back and forth. I do have new Baby lock sewing machine and not real happy with it.
#133
I learned to hand quilt from my mother. She and her sisters had a quilt group that met on Tues evenings the whole time I was growing up. But they did whole cloth hand quilting. So piecing and machine quilting are things I have learned from reading and trial-and-error.
#134
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I began sewing when I was probably 9. I started with 4-H and took Home-Ec in high school. My mother had always hand quilted, but I don't remember seeing her piece anything. In the last few years, I have started piecing quilts and I hand quilt most of the time, but I borrow books from the Library and friends to learn quilting, and I have you guys and the internet to help me. I agree with all of those that say the classes are too expensive. I homeschool, work part-time, and just don't have the money right now to take the classes.
I also miss the quilting shows that used to be on t.v.
I also miss the quilting shows that used to be on t.v.
#136
I am glad to hear your story. My best friend lives in Washington DC, he is a quiltor. Quarterly, I go to visit him for 4 days, all we do is sew,sew, sew, eat, sleep, dye fabric, sew sew sew! We get so much accomplished! We solve each others problems.
#138
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Originally Posted by Boston1954
I mean you NEVER took a class. Everything you know about quilting is from trial and error, or books and television.
The reason I never took a class is because when I started out, I did not know they had them. By the time I realized it, I pretty much knew my way around the sewing machine. I still could take one, but now I would rather spend the $$ on more fabric. ;)
The reason I never took a class is because when I started out, I did not know they had them. By the time I realized it, I pretty much knew my way around the sewing machine. I still could take one, but now I would rather spend the $$ on more fabric. ;)
#140
I am self taught - seems to be the general consensus around here. My Grandmother and Mother quilted, so I think it was genetic. My daughter now quilts, too, but I did not teach her, she just seemed to instinctively know. I did take one lesson at the urging of a friend who takes lots of them. Don't think I'll take another unless it's something I can't figure out on my own.
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