What is your least favorite part of quilting?
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Originally Posted by StitchinJoy
Originally Posted by janb
I love it all, but if I had to choose some part I liked least it would be preparing the fabric for cutting.
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Originally Posted by charismah
I hate borders....ONce i get to borders sometimes I have to let my project sit for a few days to "talk" myself into do them....Measure...cut ..measure...Measure again..UGH!
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Originally Posted by maryb119
Adding the label is a chore for me. I always add on but sometimes, my quilts have to wait a while after they are finished before I get around to adding one. I add an aditional label if the quilt places in a show and those labels really wait a while.
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Originally Posted by CompulsiveQuilter
I hate marking the diagonal lines on squares to make HSTs and flying geese. Bores me to tears and somehow there's always a zillion of them.
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Originally Posted by Jim's Gem
I'm not real fond of the sandwiching either. Though I have trained DH very well on how to help me. That and he has keys to the church where we go and push tables together.
Mine wait a long time to be quilted. I only have my Bernina to quilt on and I have a hard time coming up with a good quilting design to use. I am very weak in that area.
Mine wait a long time to be quilted. I only have my Bernina to quilt on and I have a hard time coming up with a good quilting design to use. I am very weak in that area.
#78
Originally Posted by Izaquilter
Sandwiching the 3 layers. Now that I'm getting older it's getting harder & harder to get on the floor & pin my quilts. Going to send one to a friend with a long arm & have her baste it & I'm going to pin it as she goes.....
#79
I dislike the cutting. Love the rest of the process, especially hand-sewing the binding at the end. I find that so relaxing and it marks the end of the project. Good thing! But it also means I have to cut the fabric for the next project. Bad thing! ;)
#80
Originally Posted by Vanuatu Jill
sandwiching and thread-basting (I hand-quilt) is so bad, everytime I have to do anything larger than a wall-quilt, I end up in pain-and sometimes, tears from doing it on the floor. I HATE IT! I got a full sheet of plywood several years ago and taped the edges and got some big plastic bull clips to anchor it and except the bending over it, it works really well. The problem sometimes is when it is a queen or so, I have to keep shifting the sandwich to get to another section to baste and risk getting a wrinkle to two in the backing. I couldn't take that board with me when I moved back to the U.S. and haven't replaced it yetproblem being I don't have the room for it now!! I got on the floor earlier this week to baste a Xmas tree skirt and I'm still feeling the effects!! I HATE IT, HATE IT, HATE IT SO MUCH, each time I wonder why I keep doing it! Then when the pain goes away, I remember why!!
I have a piece of plywood that I bought folding legs for: attached the folding legs to the plywood, and then got those chair-elevating things to place under the legs, so that the height was right. If I had to do it on the floor, I'd be in the same kind of pain you are!!
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