anything you always do in a quilt, kind of your signature style?

I've been noticing all my quilts have sashing.

Yea....... I've noticed all my quilts have mistakes in them. :wink:

Yes, you are right!
I've noticed that all of mine have mistakes! ;)

lol auntluc....we posted at the same time :)

Gasp! Me too! :D

You guys are funny!!! Only you can see those "mistakes" Those who those quilts are made for only see the love you put into them.

Must have been thinking the same thing at the same time.

I have a tendency to point out every mistake I make in a quilt when I show them to people. Otherwise, they wouldn't have a clue I made a mistake. Anyone else do that or is it a Virgo thing?

no it is not a Virgo thing i am a leo and i point out the mistakes also !!!!!!!!!!!

So why do we do that to ourselves :cry:
You know it's alright if I point out my own mistakes but, by golly, I get upset when someone else shows me something I hadn't noticed myself first. :lol:

I do the same thing!

I like to put a scripture verse on my quilt labels...oh yes, i like to point out my mistakes too, and how i covered them up an "easy way" lol lol lol

Mistakes comes to my mind too! But then they say that no quilt is perfect, and with all the sewing done on it, how could it be? Agree with the Virgo critique though.

Well, my family doesn't know anything about quilts, so I don't tell them a thing . I love being praised :twisted: :twisted: :mrgreen: :wink: :wink:

I like borders but it took several quilts for me to get them to lay flat.....way to much fullness for the machine quilter to work with. A few tips from her on applying borders and I finally am getting it right.

I noticed that lately I have worked with bold colors.

Yes, I always point out my mistakes in everything I do and then get mad at myself for doing that.

Donna

Gosh, and here all this time I thought that mistake thing was my own personal signature on every quilt I make! Guess I'm not so special after all!!!!

Borders keep the seams from coming apart. I made one quilt without borders and my seams started to come apart so be sure and backstiche.

I very seldom repeat the same block in the same colors - and I sash almost always (it's the glue that pulls the multicolored blocks into a cohesive unit).

I tried to not make mistakes by deliberately putting in one obvious mistake in each quilt . . . .and if y'all are buyin' that, I got this great big ol' bridge for sale . . .

I agree with the mistake thing...mine all have multiples of those...and...yes, I do point them out..and no I'm not virgo..but I do it anyway.

I'm so new to quilting that I try to do something very different on each quilt so I learn a new technique or block..so I purposely try not to do anything the same on any quilt right now. I do tend to always have some type of star block in all my quilts though.

I agree with auntluc.... :lol: :roll: I guess everyone else too...thought it was just me...here I'm normal....I'll be darn... :D

:lol: I had one of the squares turned around, but I fixed it and checked it several times before continuing.

It's good to show someone the top BEFORE you quilt it, that way someone will let you know if you goofed. :lol: Thankfully, people have let me know before I quilted it a time or two.

But hey, isn't that part of being "handmade"?

The colour purple, even when I try to make a quilt without it, that colour will juz sneak in there :lol:

When people ask me if I put a deliberate mistake in my quilts like the Amish, I tell them I don't have to...I know they'll be there no matter how hard I try NOT to make mistakes! :) :D :P

What a great bunch you all are!
You're all so talented and creative.
And encouraging and helpful, too.
Everyone seems to have a wonderful sense of humor!
I'm so happy that I found you!!
Dona :D

I don't think I've done enough to see a trend in my work. Though I am a Virgo and this thread has taught me one thing. When giving your qork to someone BITE THY TOUNGE! :D I do point out my errors when I'm working on it, or say "well it's not perfect", ect.

I tend to sneak a lot of purple into my quilts as well. and I love florals but sometimes when you are making it for someone else, they don't like flowers or (gasp) purple. I also have a tendency to point out my flaws.

Oh, mine are definitely all the same! They all have fabric of some kind, usually cotton, but sometimes silk or wool or linen or burlap or velvet, or any combination thereof...and each fabric is always some solid or pattern, printed or woven, in a single or multiple shade or tint, value or saturation of a hue...and it is all held together with thread, usually of cotton, but sometimes metallic or wool or silk or rayon. Yup, I definitely see a trend there! :D

:D :D :D :D Have you been copying mine?

You are so funny. I do the same thing. I point out my mistakes. I was thinking of posting a topic. IS THERE A PERFECT QUILT? I don't think I've ever made one and I really really try to. But as the years pass I kinda forget what my bo bo was in that quilt. I almost made it a while back and then when I was snipping a thread I cut a slash in the fabric. a small one but still I almost lost it, It was completely done, quilted, binded and then oops. Keeps us humble doesn't it?

Aim for excellence, not perfection. It's a far more realistic goal. (Sometimes the goal is just to finish what I started. :roll: )

Oh my gosh. I gotta ask......how did you fix it?

I did a little weave thing like I was darning something. Since it was a gift from the heart I was going to put a little red heart over it but I couldn't find it. I didn't spend lots of time looking and it was time to get it in the mail so I just sent it. I'm going to ask my sister to find it and I'll put the heart over it the next time I visit. I could hardly take the thing apart at that time but I do want to put the little heart embroidered thing over it cause I'm sure it'll ravel in time. There aren't many of us that actually remember darning but I did some when I was a little girl, came in handy that day.

I find that I use bold colors ... no whites or pastels in my quilts! And I love orange and black.
I've been quilting only a year and a half, and one of my two neighbor quilting friends has always told me DO NOT point out mistakes in your quilts (as she was trained). So I abide by her advice, but it sometimes requires some painful biting of my tongue.