put down the hammer and step away from the machine
01-30-2019, 07:01 AM
#21
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Location: Tavistock, Ontario, Canada
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I tried...I say tried...to make a kaleidoscope quilt from templates. If it could go wrong, it went wrong right from the very start. That, well I can't call it a quilt, that bag of cut up pieces of fabric was cursed from the start and when I went to incorprorate some of the pre-cut blades into another scrappy project, they were just argumentative. I stuffed the whole bag in the back of my closet.
Maybe for yours, now that you've made all the mistakes once, everyone will come together well.
Watson
Maybe for yours, now that you've made all the mistakes once, everyone will come together well.
Watson
BUT - I will finish it this year! Just to get it out of my way.
01-30-2019, 07:25 AM
#22
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Yorkville, IL
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Yes! I have only a few rules with quilting.
1) it is my hobby and I enjoy and love it.
2) when I start making mistakes I correct them and turn off my machine.
3) if I decide I don’t like my project I scrap it.
4) if I am far enough along with it, I donate it. (I like finishing it when I know it is being donated.)
1) it is my hobby and I enjoy and love it.
2) when I start making mistakes I correct them and turn off my machine.
3) if I decide I don’t like my project I scrap it.
4) if I am far enough along with it, I donate it. (I like finishing it when I know it is being donated.)
01-30-2019, 01:53 PM
#25
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Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Pacific Northwest
Posts: 159
Cattitude, I do the same, fix my mistakes right away. So they don't get to thinking that's gonna pass muster. Then they're put in timeout for me to decide later whether they should be used or tossed. But often, when I pull out the blocks later to evaluate, they really aren't that badly beat up and miss shaped after all.
Do I have quilts that seem to be cursed? Only every one of them.
Do I have quilts that seem to be cursed? Only every one of them.
01-30-2019, 03:54 PM
#27
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Location: Outside St. Louis
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I am like catitude no way will I stop until I get it figured out. Just the way I am. Quilting is my favorite pass time. I give away or donate most of my quilts, if I don't finish them then I can't make anyone feel warm.
I am so much different than others. I bought my fabrics to use and that is what I am doing.
I am so much different than others. I bought my fabrics to use and that is what I am doing.
01-30-2019, 04:09 PM
#28
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 3,588
Oh my yes!! I hear your pain!! For me it was a wedding quilt for my niece. The fabric was all Northcott Stonehenge--painfully expensive--and I messed up cutting the first (and largest) element. Thank goodness I only cut half the pieces 1/2 inch too narrow. I went back to the store. Sold out. I searched online. Found some at an American site. Did I mention 'painfully expensive'?? By the time the replacement fabric arrived I had calmed down.
01-30-2019, 04:17 PM
#29
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Join Date: May 2018
Posts: 117
Yes! I have only a few rules with quilting.
1) it is my hobby and I enjoy and love it.
2) when I start making mistakes I correct them and turn off my machine.
3) if I decide I don’t like my project I scrap it.
4) if I am far enough along with it, I donate it. (I like finishing it when I know it is being donated.)
1) it is my hobby and I enjoy and love it.
2) when I start making mistakes I correct them and turn off my machine.
3) if I decide I don’t like my project I scrap it.
4) if I am far enough along with it, I donate it. (I like finishing it when I know it is being donated.)
01-30-2019, 04:33 PM
#30
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Florida
Posts: 17,636
At least every other quilt gives me fits and starts and I've been at it for about 40 years. When I run out of the worse cuss worlds imaginable, I make up new ones. Next step is to walk away, shut the sewing room door and let the whole project simmer for at least a couple of days.
make up new ones, eh?
I've sure tried but when I'm that frustrated all I can
do is growl and hiss and shriek.
Don't know if I've done that to my fabrics.
I just had a thought: What if the words etc. that we say while making
a quilt came out while the recipient was using it...like a naughty parrot?
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