Snooze2978

My favorite part is designing the pattern from another pattern, making it and then hanging it up to be quilted when I get my mojo back. I now have 9 quilts hanging up to be quilted. Some have been hanging for 5+ years. Last year I was quilting and then I goofed up on a quilting pattern and had to stand there to rip all the stitches out. Anyone that quilts knows that a pattern that takes only maybe 5 minutes to stitch out will take hours to rip out especially if there is over stitching. That's where I stopped on this quilt and it's still attached to my frame to this day. That was back in April 2023 and now it's almost October 2024. I know, I know, I just have to tell myself to just get with it and I know once I get started quilting again, I'll be okay. It's just that pushing myself to get started again. I've already cleaned the rails and wheels, dusted off the quilt frame table and now need to enter the latest patterns I've ordered, oil the machine and get going.

Three Dog Night

I'm both. I love to piece tops together. The challenge of picking fabrics and seeing the end result keeps me going. But I like to quilt my own quilts with my Cutie (all I have room for) and complete the quilt but I'm selective in the ones I finish. Since I do more tops than I could probably quilt in a lifetime many of them are donations to Project Linus which keeps me happy and not stacking up those someday tops.

retired2pa

I guess I'm a stitcher for the most part, although, I've quilted a lot of quilts in the last 20+ years. However, I have at least 26 tops completed and folded and ready to be quilted. I don't enjoy the quilting part so much since I got older (77) and my neck and shoulders have arthritis. I'd like to donate the tops or sell them but I don't know where or how to do that. Any suggestions?

patricej

mostly a stitcher since i hate the sandwich steps and don't have a longarm.
luckily i have a friend with a longarm.
i use my embroidery machine to do the quilting, too.

i have one sandwiched but have to pick out all the stitching i've done so far. it's a mess. so ... who knows how many years from now it will get done?

half the blocks made for two different tops
one top more than started but less than halfway done.
one to sandwich and quilt on my embroidery machine.

Iceblossom

I call myself a piecer, design and construction are my favorite parts. A completed top is not a UFO -- it's just not quite a quilt yet.

I have a very good rate of finishing even if some times it takes awhile to quilt down. Sometimes it takes me years to collect the fabrics I'm using, I'm ok if it takes me a few years to get them quilted.

It was mostly a lack of space/equipment that held me back but I do not have the vision of artistry to include the 3D aspect of quilting to my 2D projects. Some people can look at a top and see all sorts of possibilities in the top. Me, I can look at a pretty horrible collection of scraps and see the beauty of the top in there

dunster

I'm a quilter. I load a top on the longarm almost as soon as I finish piecing it. It may sit there for a few days while I decide how I want to quilt it, and I may start piecing another top in the meantime. But I almost never have a finished top waiting to be quilted. As soon as the quilting is finished I start the binding, and usually finish that within a day or two. There is a quilt on my frame right now, half quilted, and I'll work on it some more today. I don't have another top started, but I've pulled several patterns and fabrics to help me decide what's next.

crzypatcher

I do the same as you! I have a pile of sandwiched quilts (I glue baste) on my futon waiting!!

bearisgray

It turns out that I was a buyer of much fabric with great ideas of doing something with it.

Karamarie

Then I would consider myself a quilter. I don't start a new quilt until the current project I may be working on is finished. That's just me.

MawMaw B

I'm a quilter. I make quilts to donate to Project Linus, so most are toddler or child size. I piece, glue baste my sandwich and then quilt on my domestic machine. I do straight lines most of the time and sometimes tie them.