Very interesting but true
#21
Well, I'm a mom. Had a little help there too, but does that make me not a mom? Don't think so.
I also enjoy piecing the quilt top, but do not enjoy the actual quilting process. So, I tell people I'm a topper. I also like to attach and finish the binding, so I guess I'm a binder too. Last but not least, I am a quilter! I do make quilts. Maybe with a little help, but they are my idea, my color choices, often my original design. I piece the tops, have the care to have someone quilt them well, and then I finish them. Makes me a quilter in my mind.
I also enjoy piecing the quilt top, but do not enjoy the actual quilting process. So, I tell people I'm a topper. I also like to attach and finish the binding, so I guess I'm a binder too. Last but not least, I am a quilter! I do make quilts. Maybe with a little help, but they are my idea, my color choices, often my original design. I piece the tops, have the care to have someone quilt them well, and then I finish them. Makes me a quilter in my mind.
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Hmmmmm. I'm not really a seamstress, since my sewing machine makes the actual stitches. Guess that would make me a 'machine feeder' of sorts. Come to think of it, the MACHINE is the actual quilter, as well! We mere humans only serve to push the proper buttons.
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This is the whole jist of quilting and so true. Also if you have made one (no matter the size) quilting of sandwiching 2 or more pieces of fabric together, you are a quilter.
#24
Got me thinking?
Here goes. I pick and choose fabrics then I pick a design. I then cut and sew the cut fabric to sub sized units that I piece together, sash and border. Send the back front and batting to the long arm lady who will assemble my 3 partially completed units onto the quilting machine and actually quilt my work returning to me to apply the binding. Now I ask, am I a quilter, or what? At this point, I am thoroughly confused!!
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My DGN is only 10. Taylor "sewed" (her words) a potholder and a coaster. She took her time and "sewed" (her words again) a heart in the middle of each one and gave to her Grandmother. She bound it by hand. I don't have a photo but when she showed it to me, she said "Aunt Theresa, I can't wait to learn how to quilt. I told her "Sweetheart, you've already made 2 quilts. She got the biggest grin on her face and I got out the box of tissues. The look on her face was priceless.
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Oh and my non computerized LA machine doesn't do anything but sit there and look pretty until I start moving it around.
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Unless, of course, the "mere human" is doing it all (peicing or appliqueing and quilting) by hand. And I know we have loads of hand workers here on the QB.
Oh and my non computerized LA machine doesn't do anything but sit there and look pretty until I start moving it around.
Oh and my non computerized LA machine doesn't do anything but sit there and look pretty until I start moving it around.
#28
at any rate, I quilt my own quilts so therefore I must be a quilter.
#29
This is me...were you in my head? I am more the piecer than the quilter. Lot's of tops for the girls to go through when I'm gone. Oh well...do what makes you happy and if nobody gets hurt, YEAH!
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Most people I know who only do tops call themselves "toppers" because they create the top and not the quilt. I really don't care about labels...
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