have y'all been looking at my quilts? LOL i'm guilty of all of these at one time or another

I've made a couple of quilts with some patches of polyester fabric. Not a blend but the real 100% thin woven polyester.

GASP!!! WHAT?? THAT'S PRETTY MUCH QUILTING SACRILEGE.

Wait. I can hear the sirens screaming outside my door right now. Now there's pounding on my door and a loudspeaker blaring, "THIS IS THE QUILT POLICE. WALK AWAY FROM THE SEWING MACHINE AND COME OUTSIDE WITH YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR."

Gotta go. Looks like I'm in real trouble here.

When all else fails and I can not trim a seam well enough to get it to flatten, I hit it with a hammer, works every time ;)

I don't prewash my fabrics. I don't square up my blocks. I often use scissors to cut my fabric. Sometimes I mark with ink. And, the list goes on and on.

If my seams don't match up... then my seams don't match up. :)

Using scissors is bad?? i use scissors all the time to cut fabric.

while rotary cutting towards myself, and holding the ruler down with my other, i forgot to move my ring finger and sliced off the side of my finger. did i learn my lesson? nope. ER doc said, next time leave the surgery to the surgeons..

and i must share this gal's story about swallowing a pin http://lolaagain.blogspot.com/...emergency-rooms.html

measure once, cut twice, um sometimes three times. http://boards.hgtv.com/groupee_commo...on_biggrin.gif

I rip. Rip, rip, rip. I don't prewash. If it bleeds after the quilt is done, tough. It's just a weird color quilt then.

I quilt and I am sure the quilt police would be very unhappy with my calling what I create quilts.

Oh forum-ites! You have made my day! I do so many of these things for the sake of gettin' 'er done that I sometimes don't even consider myself a quilter. A dear friend started quilting at the same time I did - we took a beginner class together. This was almost 2 years ago. I've made 64 quilts since then and untold number of table toppers, placemats, etc. She has made 17 beautiful quilts - not any more complicated than mine, in fact I've moved on in the area of pinwheels, triangles, applique, etc - but hers are just NEAT. Everything matched up. Separate bindings that are hand sewn in back - gorgeous things. Mine are .. well ... done and gifted!

My worst offense that I REALLY wish I didn't do is scan the directions of a pattern and then take off. Think I know what I'm doing then hit a brick wall. Rip, Rip, Rip.

I do all my bindings as self-bindings now. Used to do separate ones, but never hand sewed them. Put the pedal to the metal and go - that's my style!

I like my points to match and am happy when they do, but .. if they don't ... oh well!