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09-27-2024, 03:50 PM
#21
Super Member
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Oro Valley, AZ
Posts: 4,534
I guess I'm a stitcher/quilter? I enjoy making blocks and putting them together into a flimsy. I hand quilt some of my tops (maybe 1 or 2 a year) but other tops will be sent out to my favorite longarmer. The ones sent out I will finish the binding by hand.
09-29-2024, 05:58 PM
#24
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Join Date: Sep 2020
Location: OH-IO
Posts: 83
Neither. I guess I'm a "fabric buyer/project planner". I REALLY overdid it during the all Ohio Shop Hop and I have projects galore! I probably should join the Fabric Moratorium, but since the fabric all fits into the sewing room, I'm not ready to admit I have a problem 
. I think I enjoy the free motion quilting as much as I enjoy the piecing, I just wish I were better at it.
. I think I enjoy the free motion quilting as much as I enjoy the piecing, I just wish I were better at it.
09-29-2024, 06:56 PM
#25
Super Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
Posts: 8,291
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?
Cathy
10-01-2024, 04:22 AM
#26
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: The Finger Lakes of upstate NY
Posts: 3,819
Stitcher, definitely. Bad neck and shoulders mean that pushing/pulling/tugging/shoving through a domestic machine isn't going to happen for me. I have no interest nor room for a LA. So...
I happily quilt by check. I live in an area where we have several great quilters who do all sorts of quilting - custom, panto, ruler work, etc.
I happily quilt by check. I live in an area where we have several great quilters who do all sorts of quilting - custom, panto, ruler work, etc.
10-01-2024, 06:34 AM
#27
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Florida
Posts: 4,099
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
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
Also, I don’t want UFO’s so most are quilted by check. Unless it’s art, then the quilting is creative.
