Ok Quilters...What is your #1 reason for why you enjoy Quilting !

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11-10-2021, 03:55 AM

#51

tranum

Super Member

Join Date: Nov 2014

Location: Dakotas

Posts: 2,978

I took early retirement in 2004 and went to help our church quilters. I always sewed but had very little experience in quilts. Their quilts, sorry to say, were pretty bad.
We moved away and I joined our new church quilt group and life got better. We have a generous budget and good equipment. I’ve been worried as some of the quilters have health issues and can’t come anymore but just lately we have seen more join.
All our quilts are donated locally.

11-10-2021, 07:04 PM

#52

Synnove

Junior Member

Join Date: Oct 2020

Location: Virginia

Posts: 229

I enjoy retreating into my sewing room and working in the silence. It's like a mini-vacation. A quilt is a fabric puzzle -- I get to design it and put it together as I wish. I also appreciated the comment about scrap quilts being like getting "something for nothing." I, too, find great satisfaction in using up small odds and ends of fabric and coming up with something that's as beautiful as it is useful.

11-10-2021, 07:34 PM

#53

Stitches23

Junior Member

Join Date: Jan 2020

Location: Oklahoma

Posts: 193

Yes, quiet time and creativity.

11-10-2021, 09:43 PM

#54

sewingsuz

Super Member

Join Date: Nov 2010

Location: Arizona

Posts: 7,850

I also like to make baby quilts. They are fun and don't take so long and easy to quilt on my domestic machine.

11-11-2021, 02:04 AM

#55

Railroadersbrat

Senior Member

Join Date: Jul 2019

Location: Gainesville, Missouri

Posts: 520

I love the meditative quality that quilting can give. Every movement, from cutting to sewing is slow and calculated with me and it becomes a moving meditation.

11-11-2021, 02:12 AM

#56

PurplePansies

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2021

Posts: 184

As I always tell people, it keeps me off the streets at night.

11-11-2021, 04:47 AM

#57

lindaschipper

Super Member

Join Date: Feb 2014

Location: Davenport, Iowa

Posts: 3,781

I'm the creative type...always have been. Can't really draw or paint, so I stick to what I can do and that is needle work and quilting. Besides it gives me a reason to pull my hair out at times!! LOL

11-11-2021, 06:24 AM

#58

bjgallent

Senior Member

Join Date: Sep 2010

Location: Littleton, CO

Posts: 569

I also like making baby quilts as well as placemats, hot pads, etc. I make all the guys in the family boxers. Sewing is relaxing (for the most part). I have been fighting ovarian cancer for 6 years and sewing just mends the soul.

11-11-2021, 10:02 AM

#59

LogCabin82

Super Member

Join Date: May 2014

Location: Lansing, Michigan

Posts: 1,015

It allows me to hide in my cubby hole and be anti-social. LOL.

11-11-2021, 11:01 AM

#60

featherw8love

Member

Join Date: Nov 2020

Location: Sisters, OR

Posts: 13

Like others, retirement and a space to tap into the creative soul! Keeps my mind active and a space to decorate that shows a little bit of who I am on the inside! Which is a room full of sewing machines and bright colors apparently!