Which is disliked more by you?
 

Got to thinking while working on my latest quilt what I hated more...squaring up blocks, or dusting furniture. Dusting and ironing were always my job growing up.....can't remember what my sister did. Spent the afternoon squaring up about 228 small blocks before I could join them together. Hate squaring up blocks for some reason!! Now mind you, I always square up my blocks, but can't figure out why if I cut them right why everything still has to be squared up.
So what part of quilting and household chores do you dislike??

Sandwiching and definitely dusting!!! Oh and mopping floors runs a close second :)

Cleaning Bthrms…
Making the big decision on to what's my next project and deciding on which fabrics

Beyond a shadow of a doubt - sandwiching and dusting. There are no close seconds.

Sandwiching, dusting and squaring up lol

Cleaning that's why I hired someone to do it so I could sew more lololol

Borders! I hate borders. And I must not like dusting very much either, from the looks of my house.

I do not like binding a quilt (though sandwiching isn't high on my list either). I do find glue helps both.

As to cleaning - I finally hired a service. It took me a year to tell my mom. : )

Best money ever spent! It is worth every single dollar.

I don't like any cutting out the original pieces or mopping floors, or I should say my back doesn't. I like sewing it all together, really don't mind squaring up or sandwiching, because by then I'm almost through. Altho, that's bad on my back too. I really Like mopping but always down with my back for days afterwards. I guess I'm like you, I hate to dust. Dust and cut out the original pieces.

Ironing. I really dislike ironing but I feel it is an important part of my process and helps to give me precise results. I don't mind pressing seams so much, it is the prewashing and ironing large pieces. Yesterday I prewashed and prepared for storage quite a few small pieces, it wasn't so bad. Hubby was doing something in the next room, he had music on, and it was a pleasant way to spend the hour or so. But today I have big pieces to wash and prepare including a back. Yuck!

Folding laundry... (Why bother? Everyone will be throwing it back into the laundry hamper in a week!) Sandwiching definitely! I do it on a table and seemed to try every trick in the book -- except 505 spray basting, which I haven't tried yet because of the fumes -- and I still end up with wrinkles or pleats in the backing. It's a lost cause for me. :D

Housework!!Period. I don't mind any of the quilting process as much as I dislike everything about housework. Since DH retired, I have made a point of 'including' him in household chores, hoping that he might take on some of the load....wishful thinking, I know.

Finishing the quilt and putting away "the clutter." I usually stall just after the sandwiching step (which I don't mind), my challenge is the "quilting" step. This year, I am trying to push myself to finish quilts and not add to my UFO pile. And yes, I count pieced tops as UFOs because they are not ready to be given or used. My household members are "not naturally tidy" people, things remain where they were last used or set down. Sigh. We are gradually learning to "put things away" and cleaning a house without having to de-clutter first is much easier and faster.

I’m not a fan of squaring up either, but I do it because it keeps everything precise. For housecleaning, I hate vacuuming the most!

Sandwiching and mopping. Ugh

I really don't like putting all the projects items away when I finish a quilt

I'm with you, Nancy, when I finish a quilt, the last thing I want to do is clean up the mess! Housework in general is my greater pet peeve tho...it is never done! My DH does lots of woodworking and also has a cow/calf herd to keep him busy in retirement. While I'm grateful he has outside interests, he is oblivious to the stuff he drags into the house every time he comes in! There is endless sawdust/hay/dirt etc getting dispersed from his clothing every step he takes. Yeah, keep repeating...count my blessings...

My least favorite thing about the quilting process is deciding how to quilt something. I like everything else. Every other step helps me feel creative and like I’m accomplishing something. My least favorite household chore is definitely dusting. I really don’t do it unless I absolutely have to.

I'm not sure which I dislike more - trimming the frayed threads off the back of the finished quilt top or trimming individual units. Definitely not a fan of dusting.

Well now, as far as quilting, I quilt for my own pleasure and only take on projects I want to do, and I think I've said it before on here some place, that I don't mind any of it, really. I'm better at some parts than others, that's for sure. I am liking the FMQ not that I am an expert, but, the piecing has become a means to an end.

I don't like to empty the dishwasher, but, luckily, Mr. Stitchripper does it. This house we've been in for a little over 3 years is bigger than our previous house and we did the Marie Kondo thing before we knew what it was, and really did a big purge before we moved and haven't replaced anything, so it is relatively easy to keep clean. I got rid of tchotchkes a long time ago, so dusting isn't hard. We recently cleaned off some book shelves and donated the books so those are easy to dust. I can get under all the furniture except the couch and that is easy to move. I don't have a stash so don't have to worry about that. And we have a basement now, never had one before, and people before us built in shelves up above the floor so can keep some infrequently used items like suitcases on the shelves. It's a walk out basement, unfinished, but I guess because the light can shine in, it doesn't feel damp.

I'm just grateful my health is such that I can keep up with things.

I absolutely hate cooking. There is 6 in this family and 3 are children and regardless of what I make for dinner someone doesn't like it. It is not fun trying to please everyone. I don't mind squaring up blocks at all. What really frustrates me is when I square up a block and don't have a 1/4" on the edges---drives me crazy!!!

228 blocks....yuck! I don’t usually square up anything except HST. Sandwiching is my nightmare. I keep thinking I should ask around in my guild with younger members to see if I could pay someone to do it for me.

i’m fortunate that my husband does most of the cleaning. He doesn’t dust much though. So our house is dusty.

Sorting and dealing with small leftovers pieces of fabric. I started trying to get my scrap bin(s) tamed this year and have made 150+ blocks and still have lots of scraps to deal with. I think they have babies when I am not looking.

Housework I think my least favorite is keeping the kitchen cleaned up.

Cleaning- the thing I dislike doing the most is dusting, followed by vacuuming.

I don't like hand stitching the binding to the back, or hand stitching the label on, or hand stitching the hanging sleeve on. That's about the only things I don't like when it comes to Quilting.

Rob

I'm right with you! Dusting is my least favorite house chore, and I hate squaring up blocks. I'm always in a hurry to start making rows to see what it will look like, and squaring up blocks takes so long. Like you, I always do it, though.

Um, lets see? Dusting, mopping, cleaning the bathrooms. Any cleaning. LOL I used to be really good at cleaning and then my hub and son came along. They didn't really care so much so I quit caring too. But my son recently moved out and I have got more interested in it again. Have been purging and want to do more of that. I don't mind sandwiching because I know it's not going to take long. FMQ kind of gets on my nerves because my sewing machine is on the smaller side. The worst is probably having to sew all those stupid pieces together. But I love quilting because I get a great sense of peace from it. I think each quilt is a work of art, machine or hand made, because no one else is ever going to make it exactly like you did.

I can't really complain about either chore, I square up as I go, and I don't dust. As we all know, we return to dust, and that dust on my shelves could be someone I know, so.... :D:D

My least favorite quilting task is tearing off the paper when PP. I came across the freezer paper paper piecing method on Pinterest and have watched videos on YouTube, tried it yesterday so this pet peeve hopefully will go away. The rest of the process I do love.

As far as housekeeping.... emptying the dryer and taking care of it.:thumbdown:

I hate mopping the kitchen floor. And it's white tile, with just enough off-white texture to make it look dirty even when it isn't.

I used to dislike sandwiching a quilt, which is one reason I got a longarm. Now there isn't a quilting job that I really dislike, but I do have a very hard time deciding what to make next. Once the next project is started, I'm okay until it's finished and another decision has to be made.

This is really funny, my Husband and I got a good laugh.

After 2 + years retired I hate to take the time away from quilting to clean. I still do a few jobs fairly often because I also hate dirt.

I love everything about quilt making.

Omg, I needed that!! :D

I'm with GingerK.

I quilt because I enjoy it. There is nothing about quilting that I don't like. I love hand sewing the binding to the back. As far as cleaning, I believe everyone has their own idea of clean. I have a friend that I swear never uses anything in her house, it is so pristine. My house is lived in, but I do vacuum, dust, mop floors and clean bathrooms! I love my "things" and am not ready/willing to downsize or purge yet. My friend says my house looks like a museum, and loves coming here because of all the cool stuff. I display two signs. One says "My house was clean last week, sorry you missed it", and the other says "You can write in the dust, just don't date it."

I'm seriously thinking of getting rid of all the tchotchkes, because my son is a potter, and I never realized what a dusty mess it is! Its unreal! So, I think I'm going to make curtains for my bookcases, and put my very most favorite things in my deco curio cabinet with the glass doors, and get rid of everything else. It's just too much to deal with. You could even write in the dust with a date, and a few days later, you'd never even know.

As far as quilting, I think the part I don't like is the quilting, because I want to get the results of a longarm but I don't have one. So, There's that.

Just throwing it out there..... For you nonloving dusters, I discovered Swiffer dusters, OMG it changed my world, so much easier and they work. They might change your mind, maybe.:p

Oh. And BTW, this is a great thread.....

Housework - folding clothes is the one I put off the longest. Quilting - pressing anything large such as uncut fabric, backings, and the finished quilt top in particular.

me too! Sewing the binding to the back is a close second. I've been avoiding that by mostly sewing my bindings by machine on both sides.