am I stupid or what?
#21
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Originally Posted by OraLee
I understood that just fine. A picnic quilt is bettr than no quilt. Next time I think things out a bit becore I do something that stupid. Maybe!!!!!!!!!!!!
#22
im working on it lol i spent the night with the seam ripper and have to finish today.... i have to quilt it by hand.
i would be embarrassed to pay some1 to quilt my work lol (they see way too many perfect 1s)
i would be embarrassed to pay some1 to quilt my work lol (they see way too many perfect 1s)
#24
Originally Posted by NewYearsOld
Yep! Done before. I like to call it Reverse Sew. It doesn't sound so harsh!
#25
Oh yes, I've done that too... but only because the longarm was acting up. If the quilting isn't to my liking, out it comes. I always hand quilt the "special" quilts, and if that's not up to snuff, I take it out.
If it doesn't do the quilt justice, it shouldn't be there. If I can't take pride in what I've made, I redo it till I can.
And I learned the hard way that if I'm not in the mood to quilt, I shouldn't be doing it as I'll end up reverse sewing it later!
If it doesn't do the quilt justice, it shouldn't be there. If I can't take pride in what I've made, I redo it till I can.
And I learned the hard way that if I'm not in the mood to quilt, I shouldn't be doing it as I'll end up reverse sewing it later!
#26
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: NW Florida Panhandle
Posts: 30
More times than I want to admit.
I learned to piece, applique and quilt by hand. Have 50 years experience or so...doing that..
Now along comes machine work, and I want to learn to be "more productive", but can't get control I get with hand work...so undo, redo.
But as I become more and more disabled, I have to face reality...I won't be productive much longer unless I adapt, and accept limitations on control and points matching, etc.
So should I show you what a few choice friends and I have been doing on Face Book to learn?
And the thoughts in my head are things like, that would be better if she slowed down for more control, or I could do that...and ohhhh I really like that design.
So if you want to do what we are doing for online machine quilting lessons...say the work. I will show you how to get to the first site and then you just follow the "strings of thought" and go with the flow...
I learned to piece, applique and quilt by hand. Have 50 years experience or so...doing that..
Now along comes machine work, and I want to learn to be "more productive", but can't get control I get with hand work...so undo, redo.
But as I become more and more disabled, I have to face reality...I won't be productive much longer unless I adapt, and accept limitations on control and points matching, etc.
So should I show you what a few choice friends and I have been doing on Face Book to learn?
And the thoughts in my head are things like, that would be better if she slowed down for more control, or I could do that...and ohhhh I really like that design.
So if you want to do what we are doing for online machine quilting lessons...say the work. I will show you how to get to the first site and then you just follow the "strings of thought" and go with the flow...
#28
I just unpicked a single line of machine "stitch in the ditch" on a quilt for my grand-daughter. I was in a rush to be done with it to beat a birthday presentation and after just the one line, her quilt screamed "STOP!" I decided this one would be better in the end with Gram`s uneven, but loving stitches. Years from now, those stitches will mean alot more to her than having received the quilt a month sooner. AND I found some variegated thread perfecto mundo for it. The decision was meant to be. Heart motifs, her name embroidered in, little bits of whimsy here and there. I`m a stitcher first and a quilter second so I truly enjoy the extra "work".
I gave her her first "piecing lesson" on this quilt. (She was 9) She and I know which block is HERS, she did very well and nobody else would ever know. I can let her take her first hand quilting stitches on it as well, thus passing on my addiction, I mean a meaningful hobby, to a new generation.
I gave her her first "piecing lesson" on this quilt. (She was 9) She and I know which block is HERS, she did very well and nobody else would ever know. I can let her take her first hand quilting stitches on it as well, thus passing on my addiction, I mean a meaningful hobby, to a new generation.
#30
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Originally Posted by jljack
However, I think the people who do FMQ have practiced and practiced and practiced on junk pieces before they do a "real" piece.
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