If I knew then what I know - re quilting
05-11-2018, 06:28 PM
#31
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Outside St. Louis
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I have learned after a year or so, let my Daughter use up her own scraps. I added mine to the mix and used a lot of my stash and have probably made 50 - 60 quilts. No a drop in the amount needed for foster kids. We have about 720 in our county alone. Quilts and everything else is needed for these kids.
05-11-2018, 06:32 PM
#32
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Kentucky live in WV
Posts: 8,482
I know now that listening to quilting "suggestions" are suggestions. I didn't need to follow. I don't need stash, rulers, a fancy sewing machine with super speeds, fancy stitches, joining every BOM, downloading every free pattern, and I need to not get caught in the "perfection" pursuit, the how many can I produce. I use to enjoy quilting. I wish I could enjoy quilting like I did.
05-11-2018, 07:16 PM
#33
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Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 2,414
I've learned that I don't need to possess every piece of fabric I see and like. My stash is overwhelming and I'm an old lady. I would have to make quilts for the next 50 years to use all this stuff. I am pretty sure I won't last that long.. I don't thing St. Peter will allow me to take my stash, rotary cutter and mat into Heaven! 
05-12-2018, 02:39 AM
#34
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Boothbay Maine
Posts: 9,518
This has been a fun thread to follow...
I have learned that I am a little OCD and that I work best in a tidy sewing room. It is best for me to only have one or two projects going at a time and to have a list of goals each year so I don’t end up with UFO’s.
I have learned that I am a little OCD and that I work best in a tidy sewing room. It is best for me to only have one or two projects going at a time and to have a list of goals each year so I don’t end up with UFO’s.
05-12-2018, 04:55 AM
#36
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: SW Florida
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... ugly fabrics can make beautiful quilts
... paper piecing can actually be fun, and leave the paper on as long as you can
... I don't like working with white-on-white fabrics, but I always seem to be drawn to them on the store shelves
... I LOVE BATIKS!
... which way you press your seams is important for both assembling blocks and for the future quilting design, and often, those two reasons conflict with each other
... that my piecing is much more accurate when using thinner thread
... I can avoid a lot of frustration if I change my rotary blade (but, for some reason, I always wait way too long!)
... paper piecing can actually be fun, and leave the paper on as long as you can
... I don't like working with white-on-white fabrics, but I always seem to be drawn to them on the store shelves
... I LOVE BATIKS!
... which way you press your seams is important for both assembling blocks and for the future quilting design, and often, those two reasons conflict with each other
... that my piecing is much more accurate when using thinner thread
... I can avoid a lot of frustration if I change my rotary blade (but, for some reason, I always wait way too long!)
05-12-2018, 05:16 AM
#37
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Northern KY
Posts: 1,925
I have learned to slow down and just enjoy the process of making a quilt. I have learned that I don't like making boring quilts, only beautiful and challenging quilts - even if they are going to be given to charities or people I don't know. I have learned that I value quality over quantity so I will make fewer quilts but I will love the quilts I make.
05-12-2018, 06:20 AM
#39
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Benicia, Ca
Posts: 2,388
I learned that buying fabric just because it's so adorable will results in a mountain of forgotten fabric.
I learned that if I am patient and let the design/composition ideas mature on their own I will love the results
I learned that you can use different fabric for the backing and no one will care
I learned to gift quilts to people that will truly appreciated them and not use them as dog mats.
I learned that if I work on different project I will finished them all in a timely manner.
I learned that if I am patient and let the design/composition ideas mature on their own I will love the results
I learned that you can use different fabric for the backing and no one will care
I learned to gift quilts to people that will truly appreciated them and not use them as dog mats.
I learned that if I work on different project I will finished them all in a timely manner.
05-12-2018, 07:02 AM
#40
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Paradise, Texas
Posts: 916
About 2 years ago I promised myself that I would work only from my stash...except for backings or solids which I never have bought unless I needed it right then. So far, I've been doing that and loving that I can say it all came from my stash. I won't buy anymore fabric that I don't have a project for specifically. I can't live long enough to use it all and I don't want it ending up in a garage sale for 25 cents like so many I've seen. My children love the quilts they get but they wouldn't know what to do with my fabric stash when I'm gone.
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