ktmo815

Thanks for asking this question - I wondered also

Peggi

This message really hit home for me - I finally finished the top to my scrappy log cabin for my husband only to find out he has a very aggressive form of cancer, small cell. I was going to try and guilt it but not sure I can because of the size and not sure I'd have the time to finish it. I so want him to have it so am thinking of sending it out so he can use it. Glad to know it will still count from me.

quilt3311

I would say I made the quilt, but xxxx quilted it. That info is also on the label. The quilter is an artist too, and deserves to have her work recognized on the label.

Blinker

And there is definitely more to a quilt if you made up the block design, or designed the arrangement of the blocks yourself ("devised the recipe") versus taking a pattern from a book, but that's another discussion.
I said it was just my preference to finish the quilts I make, unless time or another factor enters into the decision, and there are lots of opinions posted. Thanks for sharing yours. I mostly read discussions; very seldom comment on them.
Many/most like to use long-armers, and I do, too, on occasion.

MarthaT

From a person who does hand quilting for others...I don't mind if my customers say they "made the quilt", but when someone bends down and closely examines the quilting, and asks, "Did you do the quilting too?" They'd better give me credit! Ha! I usually write something like, "Thanks for giving me the privilege of helping you complete your beautiful project" on the bill. I love helping them bring their hours of creative work to life. Watching quilting shows, like Fons & Porter, they usually say who pieced the quilt and who quilted it for them. But the quilt would never come into existence without the care and planning put in by the piecer. The piecer is the creative brain behind the quilt, the quilter just puts on the finishing touches.

MTS

Actually, it's exactly the same discussion.

If someone doesn't applique because they dislike it, do they get disqualified as a quilter?

Why do people have to buy charm cakes and jelly rolls? If they're quilters, why the heck can't they cut their own darn fabric? Are they really quilters?

Shouldn't a quilt that's done on a domestic sewing machine be judged differently than one that's done a long-arm, because one must be easier than the other? Hmmm, tell that to Diane Gaudynski and Sharon Schamber.

It's ridiculous.

The actual quilting is just one part of the process.
If someone wants to send out their quilts, that's fine.
It doesn't make them any less of a quilter.

And it doesn't make someone who does it all by herself higher up on the "quilting" food chain.

Unless, of course, you're Diane Gaudynksi or Sharon Schamber. :lol:

Parrothead

When the quilt is quilted at a Quilting Bee or Quilting Group it still is made by the person who pieced it. Many of my vintage quilts were quilted by the local quilting group or church quilting group.

quiltmom04

Actually, I think a more accurate analogy would be if you made a good dinner and someone else set a great table, plated the food and did the styling and made a great dessert. If you don't do the quilting, it's like you walked away and left the pots on the stove. Your top may be absolutely breathtaking, but you can't claim you made the whole quilt yourself if you didn't. But I'd still call you a quilter.

MarthaT

Just one more comment from a custom quilter...If a person completes a top, but doesn't have the skills to quilt(or just plain doesn't like to quilt)they should not feel guilty or feel like any less of a quilt maker if they don't do everything from start to finish. Like the previous post says, traditionally women have always helped others quilt their quilts. Asking one (or 12) of your friends to help is just continuing that tradition. The bottom line is what brings you fulfillment. Some start by dying their own fabric, others buy precut kits with everything coordinated for them. Both are quilt makers. I love hand quilting but that doesn't make me more of a quilt maker than one who doesn't. Having grown up in a family and church that regularly hosted quilting bees, that is one part of American culture that I wish we could restore...women getting together to talk about their lives and support each other in a more daily way.

fancifrock

After reading the replys, I just was so surprised. If you pieced the quilt, you are the piecer not the quilter. All of the old quilts that I have looked at that have a label on and are made by a "Quilting Group", the name of the group is on it and sometimes the names of the people in the group. Everyone has to do what is right for them and there is no criticism ment. In my mind, if you didn't sew the "stack" together, you did not do the quilting you did the piecing.