MS quilter

Did you use walking foot? Maybe medium speed?

lenette

" How many of you as beginners can remember feeling similar horror when quilting for the first time??"

What do you mean by 'as beginners?' Still happens all the time.

IrishNY

I can certainly remember feeling that way when I started and sometimes still do. But no one looks at a quilt with a microscope except the maker and once I realized that, I was able to relax. You will too.

And your skills will get better too and the feeling of horror will happen less often. Promise. :D

mizlee123

Just did my very first quilt like that too, was very critical of my work but went ahead and finished it. I'll keep this one for me. I learned alot thru the process and am not beating myself up. If I stand back 3 feet (without my glasses, I'm blind) it looks fantastic! I'm sure yours does too.

pjnesler

I've taken out bad parts and it looked just fine, sometimes those darn "eyelashes" appear :evil: and you don't know it till you're done, and you just have to fix them.

arimuse

I see 2 little kids in your avitar - Im sure they wont notice anything about the sewing other than its fun to make a fort, or asn island out of the quilt; or run little cars up and down the "roads" on it. Enjoy your efforts and go forward, sharet

BarbaraSue

oh yea--- i don't know that I call mine SID. I meander in the ditch more often, or may be I had whiskey in one hand too. though, I don't feel like I had the fun of whiskey.

I just finished ufos for my nieces boys. one had been started about 3 years being hand quilted, so had to finish it that way. the second one is MQ. I was trying SID and more than once my control for the needle position got bumped and moved the needle first to the right then to the left. so i meandered in the ditch. the worst places i ripped out. others i just said phooey. the boys will either play with them until they are threadbare and boys usually don't care about the stitching; or they will have nothing to do with the quilts and won't care about the stitches.

but no matter how often i look at the darn things, i can see the problems. but then i also know where they are. others will have to look for them!

sewsalot

I have been quilting for 10 years or so, and have done a fair amount of SID. I just finished a piece this week that is to be a wall hanging and I nearly tossed it because I felt my stitching was all over the ditch, not really in it most of the time. But, I finished it anyway and hung it in my entry foyer. To my suprise, it looks pretty good, even though I know all its faults. No one else sees them at all, and even I have to study it to see everything that bugged me so much while I was working on it. Don't be discouraged, as I keep telling myself, done is better than perfect. I really want to get to perfect, though (LOL)

CAS49OR

I haven't read through all the posts, but as a beginning quilter I would say going slightly offline while SID is ok. You are prob the only one that notices the meandering.

sans whiskey, lol

Sandra in Minnesota

Even after 15 years of quilting, I still need improvement. I enjoy SID, but what I like better is, using the foot as a marker, go next to the ditch. I think it is called "echoing".