What do you love/What do you not love..
#25
Originally Posted by SWEETPEACHES
I love planning. I love choosing fabrics and choosing a pattern. I have many ideas written down.
I don't mind cutting the fabric. I enjoy sewing the pieces together and watching it come alive and take the shape that I envisioned.
But I really really dislike squaring up the blocks. I'm making a Friendship Star. It's going to have 42 blocks (I think). Each block has 1 solid square and 8 HST. I detest squaring up those HST's before I sew them all together to form the block. And it's putting a damper on my quilting this weekend. I keep taking breaks. I wish I could hire someone to square my squares! :roll:
I don't mind cutting the fabric. I enjoy sewing the pieces together and watching it come alive and take the shape that I envisioned.
But I really really dislike squaring up the blocks. I'm making a Friendship Star. It's going to have 42 blocks (I think). Each block has 1 solid square and 8 HST. I detest squaring up those HST's before I sew them all together to form the block. And it's putting a damper on my quilting this weekend. I keep taking breaks. I wish I could hire someone to square my squares! :roll:
#29
MZStitch I'm with you. I hate choosing the fabric. I'm always afraid that there is something better that I haven't seen yet or someone will say 'why'd you put THAT colour in there?' I know that it is MY quilt but I am just not confident with colours. Unfortunately, I don't have a LQS nearer than 30 miles and work (while paying for my fabric obsession) does limit my time.
BUT I LOOOVE designing. And I must admit that, given the time to play (and create) I'm not bad at it--especially when I know that the cost of the fabric is minimal and the local animal shelter doesn't care that it is a creation-gone-wonky. I actually look for super-cheap fabric to keep on hand to try out new patterns or something of my own creation.
Oh and yeah--that housework thing--don't like that much either--or laundry--or yard work--or just work (oh, yeah guess I have to keep doing that one--pays for the previously mentioned obsession)
BUT I LOOOVE designing. And I must admit that, given the time to play (and create) I'm not bad at it--especially when I know that the cost of the fabric is minimal and the local animal shelter doesn't care that it is a creation-gone-wonky. I actually look for super-cheap fabric to keep on hand to try out new patterns or something of my own creation.
Oh and yeah--that housework thing--don't like that much either--or laundry--or yard work--or just work (oh, yeah guess I have to keep doing that one--pays for the previously mentioned obsession)
#30
I love everything about putting a quilt together except for the hand sewing. I give all my quilts and projects to my friend's 90 year old mother who just loves to hand sew. She won't take any money either so I send a bag of candy each time, which she absolutely loves.
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