I've noticed if I cook something, it doesn't taste as good as it does when somebody else cooks it..... I just wonder if quilting is the same way? If somebody makes the same quilt that you do, do you like it better than your own?

Some I like better, and some not as well...
but I almost always like someone else's cooking better than my own :D:D:D

Cooking IS like quilting, you start out with a basic recipe and you might tweak it a little as you go on...

I think I like my quilts better than my meals.

I agree with this. I cook very much like I quilt. Sometimes trial and error, or improvisation, sometimes it works out just as I planned, sometime I don't like it at all, but at least I tried...and sometimes its just better to leave that to someone else to do! LOL

Is it really that the dish taste better BECAUSE some one else cooked it, or because some one else took the time and effort to make it for you? I always assume it's the latter.... as far as quilting goes, oh yes, there are an infinite number of quilts that would be considered 'better' than mine; but only because I can appreciate the time & effort it took to create it.

I can definately cook better than I can quilt, but I keep on trying! ;)

OMG I hope not!!

Me, too.

I'm still at the stage where I like my meals better than my quilts, lol. I cook a pretty mean traditional turkey dinner and usually prefer my own cooking to that of other people.

I put a LOT more effort into my quilts than my cooking. My DS is an extremely picky eater, so cooking around here is no fun. Plain potatoes or rice or pasta, maybe butter on it. Plain steamed veges, maybe with some butter on it. Plain roasted or grilled meat, maybe with some salt on it. That's about it. I live for the day I can make a casserole!!
Sad, huh.

No I sometimes like it more and other time it is just not me. I think it has a lot to do with color but then I am the same way with cooking.

I just know that it doesn't take so long to cook a meal as it does make a quilt!

I live in a creative box when it comes to mixing fabric colors....but Im a pretty darn good cook. Oh and I love everyones quilts more then mine. The mistakes show up so much more on my own work.

Well I think its easier to fix a recipe then a mishap on a quilt

It depends on the colors for me!

Quilting, for me, is a pleasure. Cooking a chore. So, no, I don't think they are alike. ;)

Cook is a four letter word!

NO!

To me quilting is not like cooking. I hate to cook and love to quilt. Something cooked soon disappears, but something quilted will last years and years. Eating what I cook makes me fat, but whatever I quilt doesn't add an inch to my girth. I eat to live, but I live to quilt.

:lol:

I love to quilt but my passion is cooking/baking. On a crisp fall day there is nothing like a pot of stew simmering a loaf of bread raising and sitting in a comfy chair hand quilting. That is paradise, well for me it is.

To me cooking is an act of love and the same thing goes for quilting. The meals I make are not only ingredents and the quilts I make are not just fabric. With each chop of a vegetable or cut of fabric ALL my love that goes into it.

I cook and quilt but always like other peoples better then mine. I do know when it's time to cook dinner and i'm quilting i have a hard time stopping to go cook dinner. :-)

i know i cook better than i quilt, but it doesn't stop me
from trying. i do like my own cooking best---- most of the time

I so agree with this. Cooking blahhhh whish my husband would take it over so that I would not have too.

I think we are to critical of ourselves. We are all flowers in a flower garden and each special, so are our quilts. After we have quilted for a while we get better but when you go back to your first quilt it will look more beautiful to you because of the things it taught you. Gail

SO TRUE!

Unless I eat somewhere fancy, I like my own cooking...now about the quilting...I like my fabrics, but a lot of the time I see things on here and just marvel at what ppl come up with.
You know, it is easy to do that, but when you think of how many members are active on this board, don't you expect to be wowed in a group this big?
that's what makes it fun. Everybody is doing something that looks a little different.
No matter how my stuff turns out...I don't want somebody else doing it though. Then I would miss out, big time!
I have the right to make a mess too! lol! :lol: :lol: :lol:

I agree with the cooking/quilting comparison. We tweak foods to our taste in order to enjoy it more and do the same with designs and quilting options. If your quilt is sprinkled with your our flavors you will enjoy it more.

Happy designing,
Andie

No, I don't like to cook, but I love to quilt. Well, it's not that I don't like to cook, it's just that since we retired we eat funny. Some days only one meal, some days a sandwich, depending on what we are doing. I do cook a large meal on Sundays.

absolutely...you start off with basic ingredients or fabric and as you get more advanced you are then able to spice it up and know what goes with what...I've been a chef for 15 years and now am getting back into quilting...so I'm back to basics

I like my spagetti sauce best but anyone else can cook and I like everything else people make. I love the change.

Sometimes I like someone else's cooking better than mine. But if someone makes a quilt just like mine, I think I would like mine better.

lol that is what I was going to say

I'd rather eat someone else's cooking cuz I get so tired of trying to come up with something different. Since I'm new to quilting, everything is different! I'm still not good at figuring what goes with what, so I guess that's similar to cooking.
I'd much rather look at another's quilting skills/colors! Someday mine will be better tho, I'm sure of that!!

I hope not because I don't cook anymore! LOL

No.

I think with cooking, you always like what someone else made because you didn't smell it and taste it as you cook.
With quilting, you know where your mistakes are but someone elses quilt, you only see the wonderful completed quilt and not their mistakes.

I think they are alike. They both allow me to be creative and frequently I'm totally surprised by the results.

I must be a lousy piecer because I'm really learning how to compensate for strange piecing when I quilt! I have come up with several ways to compensate for a wavy border and blocks that aren't exactly the same size (it helps that I won a couple of block lottos at my LQS and there was up to a 2" difference between some of the blocks!).

Neither is brain surgery, so no one will die if I make a mistake...more likely to be hungry if I mess up in the kitchen and those truly funky blocks that just won't work in my quilts will end up all together in a colorful quilt for someone!

Yeah thats my toughts too. Love your doggy Kim :thumbup:

Tough question. I always enjoy trying someoneelse's cooking although sometimes I've run upon someone who can't even boil water if they tried.I love to swap recipes. And, I always enjoy looking at things other people make and often get ideas from how they do things or fabric choices. But, when I do something myself, I think I'm prouder of mine because I did it! Does that make any sense???