Fiddles & Fudge
 

I'm realizing that sometimes I have to fiddle and fudge to get to the finish line. My current quilt project was supposed to be quick and easy quilt in the hoop.

It's been a fiddle to get each hooping just right. Now I'm in the avoidance mode...anything else but the quilt.

So do you wing it? Fiddle or fudge?

I'm still fiddling and fudging. weeks now. so no help to you. sorry.

I just wing it a lot... are you piecing or quilting

In piecing I just try to be accurate in cutting and sewing so I don't have to fudge.

I am a fudger, and will probably be a fudger for another couple years. Maybe one day I will have the experience and time to plan every inch and improve my “precision” skills enough to not require a bit of fudge, but not yet.

I was in a hurry to finish a quilt for my DD for a birthday present for her lovely neighbor. A floral pretty throw quilt. The borders were so wavy I took them off twice and nothing was working. Lots of bias edges in the piecing. I left the borders off, machine quilted the quilt and then sewed on a row of ruffles made from the border fabric. The quilt looked great. The borders wanted to ripple so I let them. LOL

LOl, I like your logic, Onebyone!

I have a Bargello UFO for this very reason ... only I fiddled and fudged to the point I had to take a lot of it apart. Not good. A little fudging is okay. I doubt too many of us start out with "perfect" skills. And like OneOnOne stated, sometimes we just have to come up with a new plan.

That well known, early learnt technique for finished quilts? Fiddle and fudge is a skill that is writ large in all quilting books and instructions; albeit occasionally in invisible ink :D

I like to think of my fudges as "Where's Waldo". I probably have a mistake, but good luck finding it.