Piecing? Quilting? or both?
#31
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Midwest
Posts: 996
Even though I don't enjoy the quilting part, somehow I just have to do the whole thing myself. I don't think I would feel as good about the end result if someone else did the quilting. Every stitch has to be my work.
#33
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Cadillac, MI
Posts: 6,487
Dreaming of a quilt
Choosing a pattern Too many to chose from
Choosing fabric
Washing and pressing - okay, except backing pieces
Cutting - okay
Piecing
Putting blocks on design wall and sewing them together
Final pressing - okay
Sandwiching
FMQ
Completing and gifting
Choosing a pattern Too many to chose from
Choosing fabric
Washing and pressing - okay, except backing pieces
Cutting - okay
Piecing
Putting blocks on design wall and sewing them together
Final pressing - okay
Sandwiching
FMQ
Completing and gifting
Last edited by irishrose; 07-05-2012 at 06:05 PM.
#34
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Pensacola, FL
Posts: 1,599
I was working on my first feathered mini quilt last weekend and while piecing it together I remember thinking to myself how relaxing this was to me. I truly enjoy the cutting and piecing together. I "like" the quilting part but get frustrated more do to the small area I have when quilting large quilts. But I sure do enjoy admiring my work after the piecing and quilting is all done! Makes me feel so good!
#37
I love it all, especally the planning part and then the challenge to find just the right fabics and pattern. I recently started using a long arm and I love that process also. Like you said, the quilting process makes the quilt come alive! But giving them to people and seeing their enjoyment is priceless!
#38
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Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 78
I love finding the pattern (from quilting or non-quilting sources), but hate choosing the fabric (never sure it'll work or not, potentially ruining the whole project). Cutting out the pieces is tedious, but satisfying in the end when I see that wonderful pile of pieces to be sewn together. Piecing (by hand) is so very calming... stitch, stitch, stitch, stitch, backstitch, stitch, stitch... Ironing is frustrating -- interrupts the stitching. Building by putting blocks together is wonderful -- seeing how it grows! And when the top is all together, sandwiching is fine. A relief from all that stitch, stitching. Basting is fine, too because the end is near. Then, the hand quilting begins. How am I going to make this into something fantastic, something expressive, something glorious? It's a new challenge. By the time I get to the binding, I absolutely hate everything I've done, though, because I've put so much into it, with such high hopes, that nothing I could do would satisfy me. Two months later, though, I'm as proud as punch at the result. I did a good thing. It's an emotional roller coaster, I swear. The person who receives the quilt loves me even more for what I've gone through to get that gem to him or her. Whew! In short, I love it all.
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