What is your favorite part of making the quilt?
 

My favorite is doing the top. I love the planning and cutting out the pieces, then sewing them together.
I have a lot of tops just waiting to be finished.
Tell me what y'all's favorite part is....

Ditto. I like the creative part too, that is design and choosing the fabric. Piecing is OK but I hate the pressing. I am fortunate to have others quilt my charity quilt, but I don't like trying to piece the backings!! :(

My favorite is piecing the top too. I hate making the quilt sandwich, and am not too fond of quilting either. I do like to hand sew the binding on though. I used to beg my husband to quilt for me so I could spend all my time making tops. He wasn't interested, he liked to read.

The tops for sure! I do love to hand quilt but with a group. I don't own and do not want to own a long arm machine. I feel I can send out a lot of quilts to be quilted with the cost of one of those. Lol

I enjoy the whole process, but must say I'm always glad to be done with the sandwiching as my back protests vigorously the whole time. I love a bit of a challenge and learning new things. Love the actual quilting of the quilt once it's sandwiched and playing around with color and texture on my quilts. I get quite adventurous at times... :-) I love piecing; I also love taking a flat panel and making the designs really pop with the quilting. I really love it all! :-) I guess in all honesty, I just love being creative!

I enjoy almost all of it ('almost' because I am *not* a fan of sandwiching), and my favourite stage tends to vary a bit with my mood - sometimes you are just in the mood for cutting, or in the mood for fiddly piecing (strangely, I've yet to be in the mood for a bit of seam-ripping, but you never know LOL).

My absolute favourite bits are probably the daydreaming/planning at the beginning, the piecing once it is started and I can start to see a quilt emerging - tho I tend to lose steam in the middle (when it is in most danger of becoming a UFO) and then (assuming I persevere) get 'second wind' at it when I get close enough that I can see what the final top will be like. I love the hand-quilting (I don't FMQ, tho I have had a few LA'd, which is more of an instant buzz), and actually really enjoy binding.

So, most of it? LOL

Selecting my fabric.

I love the quilting part, but only because I have a longarm. Before that, I disliked sandwiching and quilting. Now the part I like the least is making the back. It seems that I just finish the top and suddenly it occurs to me that the quilt needs a back too. If I have a big piece in my stash that matches really well, I use that, but otherwise I usually try to piece the back from leftover fabric, and that can take as long as making the top.

all of it. from designing, fabric choices during design process ...planning the quilting motif as the blocks are sewn & joined, right on thru to last stitch in binding, the excitement & anticipation just keeps growing, until i finally get to hang, admire, call the hubs, he admires, brag picture taken and sent off to friends. :) ..i love to quilt

I have to say I like all of it. Don't do enough of it. ADD kicks in and I get overwhelmed.