Gemm

I enjoy most parts of the quilting process, but I would put the actual quilting at the bottom of the list. I find it hard to do and I'm never really happy with the results when I do it.

KalamaQuilts & Three Dog Night - I had to laugh (uncomfortably) when you talked about donating your unfinished projects. I have also done this, but our quilt guild actually had to ask people to stop for a while as they had hundreds (no, I'm not exaggerating!) of quilt tops waiting to be finished and they'd run out of storage space for them! A concerted effort by the community quilts team to layer and baste those UFOs along with some fantastic guild members who then took the sandwiches to quilt helped to reduce the backlog, but it took months and months and it certainly made me more aware of the drawbacks to that system. I still can't really do much with a big quilt, but I've committed to doing everything I reasonably can to finish the quilts I donate. If that means that most of my donations are more crib/lap-sized, so be it. :-)

peaceandjoy

This is definitely true for me, lol! We have almost no wall space large enough for wall quilts, too many windows/doors/built ins. And a quilt that is to be used needs to be big enough to cover from head to toe - so my quilts are all twin size or larger. The repetition can be tedious. What I really dislike is putting all of the blocks together into a top. It becomes hard to wrangle, and with bad shoulders, neck and back pain, it really does become a pain!

peaceandjoy

I have passed along a few projects that I knew would never bring me any joy. A pizza block guild challenge (we provided fabric, box was passed along each month to other members who used fabric to make a block. I tried a traditional, but unusual for me color combo - blue and yellow. Hated it.) Sad to pass on some of the blocks that were beautifully made, but knew that even if I completed it, I'd never like it. A member in another guild said that yellow and blue are her favorites, so I knew exactly who to give that to.

Things started in a class that I discovered I didn't care for... Colors I once loved but no longer do... OUT they go.

I do not consider it wasteful, even though the money spent is gone. It's gone either way, and the weight of having things I do not want is a burden. It is freeing. And when I see someone else actually enjoying those things, it's bliss!

Love the stickers, btw!

quiltingcotton

I like all parts of making a quilt, except for the cost. I love the process of watching it come together from start to finish.

b.zang

My quilts start as fantasies as I wander about in my mind over the potential projects, so I guess a completed quilt could be called a dream come true. In every project, I too find myself at some point wishing this step was done but generally I'm okay with everything. I guess I'd have to agree with peaceandjoy that it can be challenge sewing the blocks together into a whole top especially when working on a larger quilt but even then there is the pleasure of watching the birth of the whole pattern. I had not considered the cleanup afterwards as a step in making a quilt, and perhaps it is the one I enjoy the most as I love to restore order from the chaos of creation as I ponder the next project.

cathyvv

You are not alone. I love fabric! So I quilt as an excuse to buy fabric! The fabric in my stash will last several lifetimes. On the plus side, fabric prices are so much higher that my stash seems like a good investment.

ILoveToQuilt

Love the Piecing. Detest finishing. Don't like to sandwich, quilt or bind. Maybe this is why I am called "the queen of tops". LOL

DebbieJJ

I don't like trying to decide which colors to quilt a quilt in. I have a longarm that isn't computerized, so I have to manually quilt everything. I change threads to match a lot of the fabrics in the quilt, but sometimes, I just want to quilt the whole thing in one color thread.

Another thing I don't like is putting on the binding. I can do it, and I do it pretty well (most of the time), but I just don't like it because it hurts my shoulders and neck. Why, oh why, did my favorite chiropractor retire???

newbee3

with the long arm you could use thread that blends like 60 weighr

magicmoonmusings

AHA! I figured I couldn't be the only one lol