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Some people really enjoy patchwork but not the quilting. I don't see anything wrong with that, especially since I'm a long arm quilter!😊
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...hohum.......call me anything you like but don't call me late for dinner! This sounds so typically academic...full of minutia(sp)....I'm leaving now to go " play"
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To me she is a quilter who does piecework. Quite a feat in itself.
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Originally Posted by gale
(Post 6945852)
I hate to state the obvious but sitting in a field of hay is not what makes a farmer a farmer. My husband is a full time farmer. He repairs tractors, tunes them up, plants, harvests, hauls the grain, dries it, feeds some of it to the animals. He fixes things around the farm-equipment, fences, etc. He feeds livestock daily, plants, fertilizes and cuts hay, bales it. Hauls it, stacks it, etc. He never just "sits in a hay field".
at any rate, I quilt my own quilts so therefore I must be a quilter. ;) Most who piece don't really sit around in a pile of fabric waiting for a pieced top to appear! Lol! I do both. Sometimes I piece a top and send it out for quilting, and sometimes I quilt it myself. It depends on the size and what I think is needed for the project. I think of both as quilting. |
Do we call a computer-quilted quilt, a quilter? We can buy those at most home retailers. But computer generated quilting is part of our process of quilting. I use a LA if it is in the budget because they can do a much better job of quilting than I can. I could never compete with a computer-generated quilt but I do love them and they make my "piecing" much more lovely!! And a LAer that does custom work is even more special. I have done some quilting on my DSM but not big quilts. However, no matter how my quilt is completed, I consider myself a quilter... :wave:
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Originally Posted by ShelleyCS
(Post 6946388)
A friend of mine does most of that, but when harvest time comes, he hires it out. Someone else comes in with a monster sized machine and does the finishing work. (Ever see those monsters out in a wheat field side by side? It is just crazy!) He still considers himself a farmer.
Most who piece don't really sit around in a pile of fabric waiting for a pieced top to appear! Lol! I do both. Sometimes I piece a top and send it out for quilting, and sometimes I quilt it myself. It depends on the size and what I think is needed for the project. I think of both as quilting. On our tax forms we are both called farmers. I don't do any farming at all (well I gather the eggs and help dh move equipment) but I guess it counts for Uncle Sam. ;) On a side note-I guess the current thing is to not call someone who sews a sewer because it's spelled like the place where waste goes. lol. We are all sewists (which to me sounds really weird) or seamstresses, which sounds kind of stuffy. |
Originally Posted by gale
(Post 6946464)
I'd say if he does any of that, he's a farmer. My husband has hired someone to cut beans or wheat once in a while. Mainly if we're running late or bad weather is looming and we have to get it out quickly. That only happens once in a great while though. I could count on one hand the total number of times we've hired out combining in the past 20+ years.
On our tax forms we are both called farmers. I don't do any farming at all (well I gather the eggs and help dh move equipment) but I guess it counts for Uncle Sam. ;) On a side note-I guess the current thing is to not call someone who sews a sewer because it's spelled like the place where waste goes. lol. We are all sewists (which to me sounds really weird) or seamstresses, which sounds kind of stuffy. |
...and God bless us -one and all!.....as Tiny TIm would say
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I think we're all fabric artists! I design my own patterns, piece my own tops, quilt my own quilts on my longarm (now that my hands no longer allow me to do the hand quilting I used to love to do), and do my own labels and binding. But I think every single stage is also done by other artists who only do one or a few of those things. And who's to say which, if any, of those is the most important? I would guess it's the thing that gives you JOY! Isn't that why we quilt to begin with??
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Originally Posted by teddysmom
(Post 6945377)
At our last guild meeting a new member introduced herself as a "Piecer". She said she pieces all her uilt tops and then sends them to a friend to quilt. Since she has never actually quilted a top, she said she is a piecer. If I grow a lot of green beans in my garden and then give them to a friend to can for me, am I a grower or a canner. If I piece a quilt but send it out to be quilted, I have not participated in the quilting process. I know many of you "quilters" will disagree but sitting a a field of hay does not make me a farmer but a sitter.
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