madamekelly

IMHO- I think sometimes people get a little 'full of themselves' and want people to believe that they are 'experts'. If you make a job real tough looking to do, they will pay you to do it for them, or maybe the designer is just clueless?

JUNEC

Have they written a book they want to sell?

doowopddbop

Maybe they are learning to quilt by using precuts. Hmmm.

RST

Cybarian -- I think that's an intersting insight, and not something that had occurred to me.

RST

BETTY62

I love strip piecing. Not only do I feel it's a time saver but my squares are more uniformed. I did not know about strip piecing until I read about it on this board. I have learned so much from all of you and really appreciate all the friendship, information and assistance you provide.

gale

I always wonder the same thing because personally, I prefer to avoid cut triangles. But in line with the other posts I guess some people like it that way.

auntmarie

I had a quilting teacher who I believed never heard of strip quilting. I had several classes with her and she never used strip quilting and also taught hand quilting.
She is retired now.

GailG

I learned strip piecing early on, but now I find myself cutting individual pieces (and then, some of them by using templates). I belong to a group that is doing a Civil War block of the month. Each month we are given instructions for the "new" block. I try to imagine how that woman from the Civil War era did it. I use the templates or the small pieces and form the block "her way." EXCEPT, I do mine by machine instead of by hand stitching. {{{wink}}} I can see that some of these blocks would lend themselves well to strip piecing, so if/when I ever want to make more of these blocks, I will do it my way; but in all fairness to the authenticity of the block, I want to try to do it their way.

Psychomomquilter

RST, now I understand! I am going to try one, even if its a doll quilt to start. Like I said I seen such a pretty pattern and wanted to try it, but just didn't understand the concept of the strips and what they were doing in the pattern. Thanks so much for clearing this up for me!

psychomomquilter/mary

LoveBug

As someone who is hosting a Quilt Along right now, I'll put in my $0.02 about why faster methods are not used.

I'm embarking on two Quilt Alongs simultaneously - one for the AccuQuilt GO! and the other for the AccuQuilt Studio. Both projects could also be rotary cut.

Because it's also a Mystery Quilt (blocks are posted one at a time), the cutting methods are not necessarily as efficient as they could be. Also, the quilts are about USING the dies, so I'll have people use their die to cut something even if the rotary cutter would be much faster for that block.

I would suspect that someone coming in to the middle of the Quilt Along, without knowing the background, and at first glance, would think it terribly inefficient. But for the people doing the Quilt Along, they are quite happy to learn something new, and for them it's more about the journey than the destination.

So, I guess different Quilt Alongs have different purposes, and there's something out there for everyone. Some people chose not to participate in this quilt along because some of the blocks require curved piecing. Well, maybe they will find another quilt along that is more their style, or the next one I do might enable them to participate.

Also... there are many different ways to eat an elephant. I would consider "Thangles" to be a newer way of piecing triangles, but I wouldn't question someone for not using them or preferring to do triangles the "old" way.