I don't cut my bias strips on the bias. I'd rather not have any stretch or give in them (and I save fabric).

I guess I don't follow any rules. If the colors look good to me I use them, etc. I do use patterns but sometimes I like to add my own things. There are no quilt police voices in my head, thank God.

This sounds very familiar

I'm new enough to quilting that I'm sure there is probably a rule for everything......but I don't know it :) Ignorance is bliss!

Rules..........what rules.

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I was just at a retreat with a good friend from Cincinnati (spelling?) who'd recently been to the Columbus Quilt Show.
She said it was terrific, good vendors - She bought me a beautiful collection of FQs now going into a quilt. I googled the designer's name and bought alot more on line.

Terrible picture of both of us, but good of Smidgen, her dog, whom we all loved. Five of us are at my son's house in upstate New York for a week. We do it every year, driving from 4 different states. We quilt, eat too much, drink gallons of wine and catch up.

Oh, I do that too!! :oops: :oops:

I too prefer to think the "rules" are merely guidelines...sometimes stepping off the path leads to more interesting discoveries.

I don't do rules, when I am creating. Lets face it every quilt we make has it's own personality.

I figure it is my quilt and I make my own rules but of course there are times when I wished I had followed some rules when a block doesn't go together the way I want.