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This is the most fascinating thread. You guys are a hoot.

The only thing I really don't care for are art quilts. Not my thing.

don't like black and white quilts but i love black to showcase batiks and brights go figure djw

I don't like scrappy quilts, either. But would love to try a bargello and log cabin. Haven't done either one yet.

The only thing I really don't care for are art quilts. Not my thing.[/quote]

Yep, not fond of those either.

I don't like the Drunkard's Path. Maybe it's too twisty and turny?

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I cannot stand scrap quilts...any scrap pattern at all. "Random" just doesn't fit my style. I'd rather eat worms than make one. :oops: :lol:

GOOD THING all our quilting "ancestors" could "stand" to make all those random, awful, scrap quilts ... or quilting would have died out in the 1800's !!
We wouldn't be here today, enjoying quilting - of ANY sort !! :roll: :wink: :roll: :wink:

I daresay you are thinking only of patchwork and not quilting, for they were considered separate in the days of our ancestors. Quilted objects date back to between 6th and 9th century Asia, bed quilts showed up in Europe in the 12th century and quilting became very popular by the 16th century. None of it was patchwork, let alone scrappy.

Patchwork developed when the colonists were forced by poverty and the navigation Act of 1651 to mend their quilts year after year because they were forbidden to make any textiles of their own. Once fabric became more available to them a hundred years later, block patterns evolved.

So, even if patchwork had never come on the scene, quilting would still around today in many forms...probably even Bargello. :lol:

True, ghostrider ... I was thinking more of quilting and pieced quilts as we know them, made in the last 150-200 yrs or so ...
I guess we can all agree to disagree here and the old adage fits ... to each her own ... and, ... if it floats your boat, row it !! :)

My "dislikes" are OBWs, especially the ones with the open cubes. I just don't "get" those! And Sue and snowmen quilts are just a little too cutsie for me.

I think the only quilt pattern that gives me the "creeps" is the Coffin Quilt ... ie. the Kentucky Coffin Quilt, and others ... strange and morbid but fascinating !!
Not surprising from those times, where death was such a part of daily life - along with the common practice then of death photos of loved ones and children. So sad but beautiful photos, esp. the children :(

There's some I like better than others. It has more to do with color combinations than with the design itself.

I will say that much as I appreciate the time and talent that goes into applique, I don't visualize myself doing it any time soon. I'm a piecing kind of gal!

I can't stand artisy quilts that have different colors of thready stuff, beads on them. Love most others.