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Sync 09-27-2024 03:50 PM

I guess I'm a stitcher/quilter? I enjoy making blocks and putting them together into a flimsy. I hand quilt some of my tops (maybe 1 or 2 a year) but other tops will be sent out to my favorite longarmer. The ones sent out I will finish the binding by hand.

dunster 09-27-2024 07:47 PM


Originally Posted by bearisgray (Post 8662345)
It turns out that I was a buyer of much fabric with great ideas of doing something with it.

Me too. Way too much fabric.

aashley333 09-28-2024 04:08 AM

Definitely a quilter! Love playing with and matching up fabrics. Love designing art quilts. I finish one before going on to next, but I am always in planning mode.

Buckeye quilter 09-29-2024 05:58 PM

Neither. I guess I'm a "fabric buyer/project planner". I REALLY overdid it during the all Ohio Shop Hop and I have projects galore! I probably should join the Fabric Moratorium, but since the fabric all fits into the sewing room, I'm not ready to admit I have a problem :). I think I enjoy the free motion quilting as much as I enjoy the piecing, I just wish I were better at it.

cathyvv 09-29-2024 06:56 PM


Originally Posted by retired2pa (Post 8662303)
I guess I'm a stitcher for the most part, although, I've quilted a lot of quilts in the last 20+ years. However, I have at least 26 tops completed and folded and ready to be quilted. I don't enjoy the quilting part so much since I got older (77) and my neck and shoulders have arthritis. I'd like to donate the tops or sell them but I don't know where or how to do that. Any suggestions?

A suggestion - check with a local guild and offer them as donation quilts, or maybe advertise them on Facebook Marketplace.

Cathy

peaceandjoy 10-01-2024 04:22 AM

Stitcher, definitely. Bad neck and shoulders mean that pushing/pulling/tugging/shoving through a domestic machine isn't going to happen for me. I have no interest nor room for a LA. So...

I happily quilt by check. I live in an area where we have several great quilters who do all sorts of quilting - custom, panto, ruler work, etc.

petthefabric 10-01-2024 06:34 AM


Originally Posted by Iceblossom (Post 8662317)
I call myself a piecer, design and construction are my favorite parts. A completed top is not a UFO -- it's just not quite a quilt yet.

I have a very good rate of finishing even if some times it takes awhile to quilt down. Sometimes it takes me years to collect the fabrics I'm using, I'm ok if it takes me a few years to get them quilted.

It was mostly a lack of space/equipment that held me back but I do not have the vision of artistry to include the 3D aspect of quilting to my 2D projects. Some people can look at a top and see all sorts of possibilities in the top. Me, I can look at a pretty horrible collection of scraps and see the beauty of the top in there :)

I second this..
Also, I don’t want UFO’s so most are quilted by check. Unless it’s art, then the quilting is creative.


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