babindg12200

Same for me. I can't do circles, or paper piecing.

caliquocat

It's only fabric, just practice until you are comfortable. Pick out a block you really want to master & go for it.

Lobster

I'm not fond of hand-quilting through lots of seam allowances, but then who is. I don't particularly like appliqué, I'll piece wherever possible, and I can piece pretty much anything.

Don't laugh, but I cannot for the life of me use a sewing machine. I have tried, believe me I have tried. I'm housebound due to disability, so I can't get out to classes, and everyone assumes you can go to classes, including the near-useless manual from the manufacturer. I've had my neighbour show me. I've got books out of the library. I've asked people online. I've also had some people online make excruciatingly condescending comments about how it's dead easy and you just need to know about five things, which was not helpful (oddly, treating someone like an idiot rarely is). One of these days, when I have enough money, I will find someone to come and give me lessons, and it'll need to be someone who can cope with my cognitive dysfunction and keep reteaching me the basics until they get past the memory problems and sink in somehow.

myfrenchawakening

Everyone has something they don't like. I guess we all know what we love and what we're comfortable doing. For me, give me any shape but let me not think of another project in the middle of a quilt. That REALLY makes me frustrated as there is not enough hours in the day for design! Therese

annesthreads

Applique. The first quilt I made was a baby quilt, and the friend who was teaching me persuaded me to applique ducks onto the blocks. What trauma! I've never gone near applique again since.

chairjogger

seam rippers are my friends. Yes, plural. I have gone through several :)

quilter on the eastern edge

Y-seams. They scare the bejeebers out of me! I won't even buy a pattern that has Y-seams.

willis.debra

i can't say i am afraid of anything but i SERIOUSLY DISLIKE making hexagons.

Tinabodina

Circles for sure! I love the quilts using circles, but I have never attempted them.

Selena

The Boston Blocks Tut from a member here is a great way to make half square and quarter square triangles-easy. I have incorporated it into my own designs.