Am I doing this right?
02-04-2011, 02:50 AM
#41
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Location: altamont NY
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It looks perfect please trust in yourself, the recipient and especially the baby/child will come to love it. Quilts are dimensional, once they are quilted. Beautiful choice of colors you have a great eye and YOU CAN DO THIS!
02-04-2011, 04:21 AM
#44
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Location: Maine
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Go to Missouri Star Quilt Company Tutorials. There are a gazillion tutorials and you will get great help. I refer to it any time I have a question as well as asking board members who are fabulous quilters, so helpful and friendly.
Also, don't worry so much about everything being exactly perfect. Have fun with it. Your family members won't know that you have something just a tiny bit off from time to time.
I just made two large quilts for my twin grandchildren for their birthdays. They will get them tomorrow. They won't know there are errors in both of them. They will love them.
Don't be so hard on yourself. The evidence is in the star picture you posted. You are very good at quilting.
Also, don't worry so much about everything being exactly perfect. Have fun with it. Your family members won't know that you have something just a tiny bit off from time to time.
I just made two large quilts for my twin grandchildren for their birthdays. They will get them tomorrow. They won't know there are errors in both of them. They will love them.
Don't be so hard on yourself. The evidence is in the star picture you posted. You are very good at quilting.
Originally Posted by huggabug123
Hi Everyone,
My name is Carol. I live in Colorado about 30 minutes from the beautiful Rocky Mountains. I have put together sooo many quilt tops and taken apart sooo many quilt tops and struggled for years with quilting. I am sure I have made at least 10 to 20 tops and taken each and everyone of them completely apart because I just wasn't sure of them. I don't have any family that lives nearby and I currently don't know anyone nearby that quilts. My husband was starting to get frustrated with me and he suggested that I look for some help and get up and over this mountain that I seem to be climbing. I promised my husband that this would be the year that I learn to quilt from start to finish ~ even if I have to pull out a bazzillion or more stitches.
So, here I am...I am currently waiting for the start of a quilting class and I am currently working on a top for what I hope turns into a baby quilt for my husband's cousin. This quilt is supposed to have a huge star in the middle of it. Then it will be framed with two different widths of border and then binding. I am enclosing a photo in hopes that some of you might take a look at what I have done so far and give me some feedback.
Are my squares and points lined up close enough? Am I on the right track? I really need all the help I can get right now, so I thank you all in advance for your feedback, both positive and negative.
~Carol~
My name is Carol. I live in Colorado about 30 minutes from the beautiful Rocky Mountains. I have put together sooo many quilt tops and taken apart sooo many quilt tops and struggled for years with quilting. I am sure I have made at least 10 to 20 tops and taken each and everyone of them completely apart because I just wasn't sure of them. I don't have any family that lives nearby and I currently don't know anyone nearby that quilts. My husband was starting to get frustrated with me and he suggested that I look for some help and get up and over this mountain that I seem to be climbing. I promised my husband that this would be the year that I learn to quilt from start to finish ~ even if I have to pull out a bazzillion or more stitches.
So, here I am...I am currently waiting for the start of a quilting class and I am currently working on a top for what I hope turns into a baby quilt for my husband's cousin. This quilt is supposed to have a huge star in the middle of it. Then it will be framed with two different widths of border and then binding. I am enclosing a photo in hopes that some of you might take a look at what I have done so far and give me some feedback.
Are my squares and points lined up close enough? Am I on the right track? I really need all the help I can get right now, so I thank you all in advance for your feedback, both positive and negative.
~Carol~
02-04-2011, 04:32 AM
#46
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Location: Alturas, CA
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Welcome from northeast CA., so glad you joined us. I think that it looks great, you're doing fine. There's a lot of friendly, talented people on the board that if you have a problem, just ask and someone will be able to help you. It sounds like though you think your quilts have to be "perfect", I don't think it can be done. You're off to a great start.
02-04-2011, 04:42 AM
#47
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Location: Rosedale, Indiana
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Looks good to me. I love the fabric. Don't be so hard on yourself. Quilting is supposed to be fun. You can drive yourself nuts trying to be perfect. Perfection is unattainable. I know. I've tried. Whoever you gift your quilts to will only see the hours of work and the love that went into them.
02-04-2011, 05:58 AM
#49
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Originally Posted by Shelbie
Quilting is supposed to be a fun and relaxing pastime. It sounds as if your quest for perfection and all of that ripping is taking all the fun out of quilting. What you have shown us looks just great. Don't rip it out, just finish up the rest of it!
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