TIME well spent
#22
Super Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 1,296
Well, I'm one to finish cutting before going to piecing, etc. I took a class with Ami Simms and was told I was anal because I had everything cut and ready to sew. NO ONE else had done this!! Oh, well!! Just for the record, I didn't end up farther on my quilt than others. I am a presser as well and am sure this took up more time than most. By the way, Kay England states not to press until the block is complete. I hang my head in shame as I can't do it!!
#23
It takes me days to choose fabrics - I have a huge stash so I "shop" in my stash. If I can't get the right combo of colors together, I move on to a different group of colors until I get something I like. I enjoy this process! It also takes me days to cut because I get bored and have to take a "break"!!! I also have a bad wrist due to surgery in 2003.
#24
Fabric choices and layout. I can spend days on these. The layout is the most difficult part of the process for me. I'll layout the blocks, take pictures, layout them out a different way and take more pictures. I refer to the pictures when I sew the blocks together.
#25
Okay so I am a pattern designer and a quilting teacher. I teach a color theory class. I love picking out fabrics. I love designing quilts. I love the complete process. I also have a very arty daughter. She will come over and pull fabric from my stash for my projects. I trust her choices. She is a graph design artist. She is making sculpted cakes and they are awesome, see Jennylu's on FB. She has a degree in Art. All that being said I do occasionally second guess my decisions. Feeling comfortable in the correct choices is very important. I feel first impression is usually the correct one. Go with your gut! But most of all Enjoy the process! Remember we are artists and our medium is fabric!
#26
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Dalton, MN
Posts: 334
Originally Posted by amma
All of the above :roll: :D:D:D
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#27
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Dalton, MN
Posts: 334
Originally Posted by crafterrn1
Okay so I am a pattern designer and a quilting teacher. I teach a color theory class. I love picking out fabrics. I love designing quilts. I love the complete process. I also have a very arty daughter. She will come over and pull fabric from my stash for my projects. I trust her choices. She is a graph design artist. She is making sculpted cakes and they are awesome, see Jennylu's on FB. She has a degree in Art. All that being said I do occasionally second guess my decisions. Feeling comfortable in the correct choices is very important. I feel first impression is usually the correct one. Go with your gut! But most of all Enjoy the process! Remember we are artists and our medium is fabric!
#28
I take a class with a lady who teaches mostly Thimbleberries. These books tend to have you cut a section and then sew it, cut and then sew- for me, gratification to see where things are going BEFORE i commit to every single color in the project. I have avoided some pretty ugly mistakes this way.
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