Rules (and recipes!) are just guidelines. I take them all with a grain of salt and then do as I please. lol

Sometimes it works better than others, but I always learn something from the process.

What rules? I didn't think quilting had any rules.

If you really knew me you would laugh at this answer because I very seldom follow rules in any part of my life but I think I follow most of the rules in quilting. I don't think of them as 'rules' but as traditions that have developed because they make sense. Most of the things that have been referred to as rules are really just a best practice that someone found.

I use all the best practices I can find unless it doesn't work for me and then I don't. If it makes sense, then I am all over it. If it doesn't, I find another way.

So I think I am kind of a rule follower in quilting (but not the kind that does it because of what other people think). :|

Rules - what rules? :lol:

There is not a rule invented I have not broken. Every one listed so far I have broken and I'm sure a few more tha I did not even know were rules (except washing flannel first - learned the hard way on that one).

I run with scissors too!!! :-D

probably all of them at one point or another lol

Dont cut with my fabric scissors is the only rule in my sewing room. Other than that everything goes. Well almost everything!

THERE'S RULES ????? :roll:

I make "it" work for me - whatever "it" is, but I only use fabric scissors for fabric because a dull scissor (and yes, paper WILL dull them) is a pain in the neck. Other than that - when I don't follow the rules, I get to be creative.

My favorite saying in the Pirate movies: Pirate rules are more like ...guidelines. So that is what I live by - except for swaps - then they are rules.

I use white thread on the machine exclusively... even if the fabric I'm quilting is dark. Oh and I'm really bad at remembering to change the needle.

What else... oh I'm planning a signature quilt, but I don't like any of the "signature blocks" that I've found to make. So they'll be signing the center of log cabins.