KalamaQuilts

I made a quilt with a friend who doesn't sew
She did the beading. During the course of the project I taught her precision patchwork and a few days ago she sent a note showing her Texas Star project.

Funny thing is she joined a church and then destroyed the quilt as sinful. No biggie, always more fabric to make more quilts

mic-pa

My sister and I decided we would make a quilt for our brother together. learned the hard way no two people sew alike. Our blocks did not match and things started going down hill from the beginning. So lesson learned. Never sewed with anyone else on the same quilt again.

Irishrose2

Our quilting group at church consists of three regulars and some drop-ins. Two of us do the sewing, one presses and does anything else needed. The other sewist and I do not have the same quarter inch. Because I do the cutting, she does more of the sewing. How do I get around the different seams? By having two quilts going at once. It works for us.

Kitsie

When my cousin comes down for her week long visits at least twice a year, I put my sewing aside and we concentrate on a project she wants to make. We switch off and on for choosing fabric, cutting, sewing (as in I'm the FG star and she, HSTs), pressing (whoever is not sewing).

So we enjoy out time! Last visit she brought down 5 projects!! We decided to choose just one and barely finished the top! But what a fun time we have! Sometimes her Featherweight accompanies her so we can sew blocks together. We are our own guild!

themadpatter

I've done group quilts twice, and both eere baby quilts for coworkers. One came out great, as far as I can remember, but the pther one had some issues. I must have been the one who assembled that one, too, because I remember some of the squares were warped by the bunka punched designs, and I have a memory of one done on completely flimsy fabric. Oy! I do remember that she really loved it thpugh. Whoever she was, lol, I can't remember that! Geez, it was only 30 years ago!

patricej

the biggest problem with group quilts is the currently popular philosophy that "finished is better than perfect."
true enough that "perfect" is an unrealistic standard or expectation.
but - and i won't apologize for believing this - finished slop is not better than getting as close to excellent as humanly possible.

unless every person working on the quilt has the same standards and actually cares whether or not those standards are met the result with almost certainly be a hot mess. the only questions are (1) how many will realize that and (2) how many others won't care about that.

jmoore

[ATTACH=CONFIG]595043[/ATTACH]Thankfully I have not had to work directly with another quilter on a project. I have to admit I’m a little OCD. I would probably get more quilts done if I wasn’t such a perfectionist.

I am involved with a modern quilt guild where we are working on traveling quilts but the blocks or additions are your own design and no specific measurement. We each started out with a theme to our quilt and a journal that gets passed along that tells a little about your favorite colors and quilting style. It has been fun to see the talent and creativity of the group.

lindaschipper

I could never sew with my late sister...we made two very different types of quilts. She loved making rag quilts and I prefer the more traditional blocks. She wasn't knowledgeable enough to sew in my word and I didn't want to make rag quilts. Loved her...

WMUTeach

In my world this is call parallel play(doing the same thing side by side) vs. associative play (working at the same task together). I may have retired but I just can't leave my child development world behind. Tee-Hee

I would rather play beside my quilting friend and keep the friendship. Working with a friend can test the strength of a friendship.

WMUTeach

I have made two baby quilts with a friend who is a garment maker with excellent skills. It took the first quilt to help her begin to understand the principles of measuring, color, layout and how changing the size of any block or cut impacts the whole project.

So for quilt #2, I suggested a wonky star quilt because it would allow her to play with color, and why some don't work well together. This pattern also was gracious with errors in cutting and squaring up. They would disappear in the "wonkiness" of each block.

I needed stitches in my tongue on quilt one, but kept reminding myself of the value of our friendship and to look at this as a teaching moment. Quilt #2 was much more fun. Yes, for her a hard pattern to wrap her head around but she loved the end result and now, feels more understanding of the process and skills needed to construct a quilt from choosing fabric to adding a label and binding. ....By the way, we are still friends! <3