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sewhappy30 09-06-2010 04:52 PM

I enjoy piecing the blocks the most. I love to see the quilt start coming together.

Annz 09-06-2010 05:05 PM

Block making and everything that follows.

IBQUILTIN 09-06-2010 05:13 PM

I love the whole process Each quilt is a journey, and each phase a stop along the way.

ninalee 09-06-2010 05:18 PM

I like the planning stage - figuring out what I want to make, picking a color palette, pulling from stash and searching for fabric.
I don't so anything until I am 100% sure of what I want. I still have many groups of fabric waiting for projects....

Dee 09-06-2010 05:26 PM

I have fun with the whole thing except the mitering corners. Seems to be problem. However the tute and the tool I now bought hope will end the nitemare.

annette1952 09-06-2010 05:57 PM

I like the whole process but my fave is piecing

ninalee 09-06-2010 06:12 PM

How nicely put!

dublb 09-06-2010 07:06 PM

I LOVE hand quilting. I'm learning to piece & machine quilt. I have so many ideas that there's no way I would be able to hand quilt 'em all. I like borders & bindings. I just don't like preparing the fabric...ie... Washing ...Ironing... & cutting.

madamekelly 09-06-2010 09:02 PM


Originally Posted by Kas
Fondling the fabric! And when the finished quilt comes out of the dryer. Those are my favorite parts.

My favorite part is also the 'fresh out of the dryer' new quilt too! I just love seeing how the quilt 'blooms' from being laundered. Am I just goofy, or do others wait for that moment too?

Harmony 09-06-2010 09:26 PM

I love most phases of quilting, but I like doing the binding because I'm pretty confident about my abilities there and can expect a good outcome most of the time, and it means my quilt is almost done--except for the BIG reward, taking it out of the dryer!

purplefiend 09-06-2010 09:38 PM

I like making the top and doing the binding. I really need a place to pin baste my quilts, since the local quilt shop closed; there isn't any place for me to do it.
So I keep making tops

wildyard 09-06-2010 09:57 PM

I love the search for the right fabrics and the planning stages. Second best I love the piecing each block. After that I like sewing the blocks together into the top. Cutting can be difficult for me so it's not my favorite thing to do, but I do like the good feeling of seeing the pieces accumulate ready for the piecing to start!! Sandwiching and quilting are very difficult for me, so I will either QAIG or tie.

Gramof6 09-07-2010 12:47 AM

My very favorite is selecting fabrics for a project. Next fav. is hand stitching the binding onto the back. Least fav. is the ironing & machine sewing the binding onto the front.

Put us all together & I think we would do well doing our favorite parts. There would be some great quilts completed at the end. :thumbup:

Quilter Day-by-Day 09-07-2010 06:19 AM

I enjoy all stages of quilting,even though I have problems with binding.

BizyStitches 09-07-2010 01:27 PM


Originally Posted by SuziC
Which do you like doing the best? The cutting, block making, quilting the finished project. Sometimes i find i am only in the mood to cut fabric. Other times it's the construction of the top.
What is you favorite part of making q quilt?

My favorite is putting on the binding. I find it very relaxing, and also its a great feeling to know you have almost finished a project. LOL

G'ma Kay 09-07-2010 04:57 PM

dreaming it up.

raedar63 09-07-2010 05:36 PM

I think binding and as someone else stated getting the finished quilt out of the dryer.

k9dancer 09-07-2010 09:45 PM

I love the design phase the best. I will make dozens of graph paper mock-ups before I cut anything. If I can find a speedier way to sail through construction, I do, and that is a great feeling.

Pickles 09-07-2010 10:06 PM

I love it all pretty much , I would love the quilting of them better if I had the FMQ foot are a walking foot, maybe someday
:D

Caroltee 09-07-2010 10:14 PM

First of all I love quilting because there are no calories and it’s fat free… Second of all and best is the priceless look on the face of the person that I give it to… I really enjoy sewing and quilting.... its like therapy to me I just seem to lose myself in what am doing and forget my problems.

Borntohandquilt 09-07-2010 10:26 PM

Hand Quilting is my favourite. It's easy to know because besides sewing the length of fabric togehter by hand and finishing the quilt with a knife edge it is all I have to do on a wholecloth!

zz-pd 09-07-2010 10:55 PM

I love it all, just wish cutting would not cause so much pain. God bless.

mrs. fitz 09-08-2010 01:25 PM

It still surprises me that my favorite part is the one I said, as a new quilter, I'd never do - the hand quilting. Even those times when it's just outline stitching, it's enjoyable and totally relaxing.

Least favorite - making the "sandwich" because I don't have the right space to do it.

Slow2Sew 09-09-2010 09:26 AM

I love, love picking out a pattern and fabrics. Cutting is good, as is sewing. After that it's a real effort to finish.

pstoner 09-09-2010 10:22 AM


Originally Posted by np3
I like every phase but I have times when I only want to cut, or maybe I only want to piece. So I usually have several projects going at one time so I can "feed my habit".

Yes, that best describes my thought processes as well.

salmonsweet 09-09-2010 10:41 AM

Buying fabrics.
Oodling and playing around making a design. (Or not. Just having fun playing...)
Auditioning fabrics.
Changing stuff around at every step as I make the quilt.
Seeing how it takes shape. Agonising over stuff that isn't working the way I envisioned it - what to do, what to do...
Unfolding a project I've put away for a while because I was no longer liking it... and finding it's beautiful after all.
Stitching down binding, racing myself (excited, impatient now) along the final straight edge to the FINISH! line. :thumbup:

Yay! Done. That's one of my favorite moments, too.

ckcowl 09-09-2010 10:50 AM

THE BINDING!!! BECAUSE IT MEANS I'M DONE!!!YEA!!! but i really enjoy the whole process...well, cutting not so much, but everything else...yup, i like it all...but the best part is DONE!!!

grannie cheechee 09-09-2010 01:34 PM

Hey, I just found my least fasvorite thing. Reading the pattern wrong. I've made this pattern several times, and I guess I thought I knew everything about it. LOL on me. I know your not suppose to cut after 9 o'clock at night, but this was 9 A.M. Oh, well live and learn.

Ilovemydogs 09-09-2010 03:15 PM

I like all phases. What I like best is once I start sewing. I have the design all done, the pieces are cut, I am ready to go. That is when things go the fastest for me.


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