Most beautiful pattern ever
08-27-2012, 04:05 PM
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To me a quilt made lovingly by a grandma for a grandchild is far more beautiful than one (almost perfect) made for the sole purpose of winning competitions. Nothing wrong with that, I greatly admire the work of these people. A child's first attempt at making a quilt, a quilt made full of love for a friend or loved one or even the family pet.
As the saying goes, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It's also in the joy when someone loves what you have made for them. As to favorite pattern I think Mariners Compass is still high on my list. It's surprising to look back on the magazines I bought when I first started quilting and realize how much my tastes have changed. Quilts I thought I'd make back then but never did aren't even on my list these days. As we have all seen written "so many quilts so little time".
As the saying goes, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It's also in the joy when someone loves what you have made for them. As to favorite pattern I think Mariners Compass is still high on my list. It's surprising to look back on the magazines I bought when I first started quilting and realize how much my tastes have changed. Quilts I thought I'd make back then but never did aren't even on my list these days. As we have all seen written "so many quilts so little time".
08-27-2012, 05:58 PM
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08-28-2012, 07:30 AM
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DJ. I just finished the blocks for one, it took a year and I love it as much now as when I started. Here's a picture from the first time I laid all the blocks out together. Since then I've changed some of the colors. Didn't have room for all the triangles. I also love NY Beauty and Mariner's Compass. DJ turned me into a paper piecer.
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08-28-2012, 08:07 AM
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Neesie
My name is N-E-E-sie, NOT Nessie!
Follow your heart but take your brain with you!
Neesie, I love this, I need to figure out how to add something like that when I sign my name. It would be "My name is:
M-a-I-R-e not Marie" So many people assume I misspelled my name, you must get that also. I almost always have to have legal papers corrected, I even overheard a clerk say "what fool misspelled Marie?" My name is a very common name in Ireland, just not in the US
Maire
My name is N-E-E-sie, NOT Nessie!
Follow your heart but take your brain with you!
Neesie, I love this, I need to figure out how to add something like that when I sign my name. It would be "My name is:
M-a-I-R-e not Marie" So many people assume I misspelled my name, you must get that also. I almost always have to have legal papers corrected, I even overheard a clerk say "what fool misspelled Marie?" My name is a very common name in Ireland, just not in the US
Maire
People will call me "Neesie" but when they write it, many misspell it and write "Nessie." Any PMs sent to "Nessie" do NOT come to me.
As for your name, I think it's a lovely name and have heard it before. It really irritates me, when people second-guess someone's name spelling! Reminds me of an old friend of mine, whose daughter's teacher tried to teach the child to misspell her own last name. Her last name was "Larson" but the idiot teacher thought it should be "LaWson!"
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