How many of you quilt your own quilts?
#12
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Peotone IL
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Except for 1 king sized quilt, I quilt my own. I can't afford to have them done. Of course, I only straight-line quilt---SID or outline. FMQ intimidates me and I have so many quilts I want to make that I won't/haven't take the time to practice FMQing. My quilts are gifts or for Project Linus; I'm not entering them in shows. I do what I enjoy doing. I'm too old to stress myself out on something I don't enjoy. Besides, especially for gift quilts, I want them to be all my own.
Last edited by gramajo; 04-20-2012 at 09:37 AM. Reason: Additional comment
#13
I do my own start to finish. And I hand quilt them all. I can understand why people would send them out, but for me it's like the quilt isn't really mine. Althought, if I did send them out I could do a lot more quilts. I keep thinking about learning to machine quilt, but I really find the hand quilting to be quite therapuetic.
#15
I am a self taught quilter & quilt my own quilts. Until I went to my 1st quilt show I never even realized that everyone didn't do their own quilting! Several years ago I got a Janome1600P that has a 9" throat space to make quilting the bigger ones easier. I am not too fancy, lots of SID & straight lines but I am getting better at FMQ. Piecing is really my favorite part of quilting.
#19
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Holmen, WI
Posts: 6,459
Way back in the day I used to hand quilt mine but have that's just gotten too tiring & hard to do (can't be because I'm getting old, can it? LOL!). Nowadays machine quilting is so advanced & pretty, I send all mine out & have been quite happy with the results.
#20
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Illinois
Posts: 9,312
I gave up the guilt of not quilting my own a long time ago. I hate and I mean really hate ..quilting anything over a lap size quilt.
So many L/A pros are artists with what they can do, that I will continue to explore and go further with my art of piecing, and leave the quilting to a PRO. I would rather eat mac &cheese , cheap bologna sandwiches , even give up ice cream ( and I really love ice cream) than quilt a big quilt myself.
Sending my quilts to a pro , is the best gift I can give myself
So many L/A pros are artists with what they can do, that I will continue to explore and go further with my art of piecing, and leave the quilting to a PRO. I would rather eat mac &cheese , cheap bologna sandwiches , even give up ice cream ( and I really love ice cream) than quilt a big quilt myself.
Sending my quilts to a pro , is the best gift I can give myself
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