Ok Quilters...What is your #1 reason for why you enjoy Quilting !
11-10-2021, 03:55 AM
#51
Super Member
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Dakotas
Posts: 2,986
I took early retirement in 2004 and went to help our church quilters. I always sewed but had very little experience in quilts. Their quilts, sorry to say, were pretty bad.
We moved away and I joined our new church quilt group and life got better. We have a generous budget and good equipment. I’ve been worried as some of the quilters have health issues and can’t come anymore but just lately we have seen more join.
All our quilts are donated locally.
We moved away and I joined our new church quilt group and life got better. We have a generous budget and good equipment. I’ve been worried as some of the quilters have health issues and can’t come anymore but just lately we have seen more join.
All our quilts are donated locally.
11-10-2021, 07:04 PM
#52
Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2020
Location: Virginia
Posts: 231
I enjoy retreating into my sewing room and working in the silence. It's like a mini-vacation. A quilt is a fabric puzzle -- I get to design it and put it together as I wish. I also appreciated the comment about scrap quilts being like getting "something for nothing." I, too, find great satisfaction in using up small odds and ends of fabric and coming up with something that's as beautiful as it is useful.
11-11-2021, 04:47 AM
#57
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Davenport, Iowa
Posts: 3,810
I'm the creative type...always have been. Can't really draw or paint, so I stick to what I can do and that is needle work and quilting. Besides it gives me a reason to pull my hair out at times!! LOL
11-11-2021, 06:24 AM
#58
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Littleton, CO
Posts: 569
I also like making baby quilts as well as placemats, hot pads, etc. I make all the guys in the family boxers. Sewing is relaxing (for the most part). I have been fighting ovarian cancer for 6 years and sewing just mends the soul.
11-11-2021, 11:01 AM
#60
Member
Join Date: Nov 2020
Location: Sisters, OR
Posts: 13
Like others, retirement and a space to tap into the creative soul! Keeps my mind active and a space to decorate that shows a little bit of who I am on the inside! Which is a room full of sewing machines and bright colors apparently!
