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I don't like sewing rows of blocks together. I guess they look like they
are already done when put up on the design wall. They get so clumsy to handle when getting down to the last couple of rows. I have even started to sew tops together in blocks of 4-6 so I don't have the long rows to sew together until the last. That helps a little. I don't like hand quilting or other hand work (except binding..sew below), and I guess I'm not that crazy about machine quilting either judging by the number of unfinished tops I have. But I'm getting better at it. And I also don't like paying the bill to the longarm quilter. But at least it's closer to finished! -- Kathyl remove "nospam-" before mchsi http://community.webshots.com/user/kathylquiltz Although I DO like sewing on binding, I don't like putting on a label. I never know quite what to say on it or how to say it..first person voice, third person voice? And when I appliqué the label, it always looks crooked....see hand work (above). The rest of the process is enjoyable, the dreaming, the buying (especially!), the cutting, the sewing, sometimes the unsewing (I love my moustache trimmer!) and the last folding before putting on display or giving away. Whew! ""Pussywillow" Volfie" wrote in message ... I was piecing a block today and it occured to me that there are very specific parts of building a quilt that I like and very specific parts I don't like (or don't like as much). I like looking at patterns and designs and dreaming up quilts. I like finding, buying, washing, ironing, cutting the fabric. I like cutting out stuff I can cut with a rotary cutter. I like working with patterns and putting the pieces together for sewing. I'm not so wild about the sewing part. I like trimming the sewn pieces to make them square. I like ironing them open. I like pining those pieces together for the next stage. Then I'm back to the sewing which I don't like so much. Once the whole top is assembled, I've pretty much hit my "I like" limits. I don't like sandwiching the layers together. I don't like basting. I don't like quilting although if someone does all the other steps for me, I will stipple my brains out -- the only quilting I love, love, LOVE to do. I don't like putting on the binding. I DO love looking at the finished quilt. Now if I could just find a partner who likes doing the parts I hate, I could make a quilt about every other day or so. |
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Sniff.
Best answer award goes to.. this post... Diana -- Weird people need beads, too "Polly Esther" wrote in message .net... I love the honor of hugging a little guy who arrives at a shelter with nothing to call his own, not even a Wal-Mart plastic sack with a change of underwear. The quilts to the Linus folks, the little ones at the Lion's House who were abandoned and the neonatal unit where, for a long time, they are only known as the "baby with the chicken quilt" because it hurts too much to think of that little bit of life as a person. I love having the time, enough skill, the materials and the tools to show love. Yes. I love it. Polly |
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Well, a few months ago my answer would have been different! I have
'moved on', as they say! I do love getting ideas and designing on paper - probably still my favourite bit; I now really like choosing the fabrics - I used to find that difficult, but now I enjoy it so much it doesn't seem hard; I do enjoy the piecing; I am beginning to like the quilting - some I now positively enjoy; I have no problem with putting the binding on - I just love those dear little mitres that appear so neatly - have you ever tried a one-eighth inch binding? so cute, the little mitres come just the same!! But - NOW - I hate deadlines. I've put up with them for years; but am no longer going to indulge in them gg .. In article , "\"Pussywillow\" Volfie" writes I was piecing a block today and it occured to me that there are very specific parts of building a quilt that I like and very specific parts I don't like (or don't like as much). I like looking at patterns and designs and dreaming up quilts. I like finding, buying, washing, ironing, cutting the fabric. I like cutting out stuff I can cut with a rotary cutter. I like working with patterns and putting the pieces together for sewing. I'm not so wild about the sewing part. I like trimming the sewn pieces to make them square. I like ironing them open. I like pining those pieces together for the next stage. Then I'm back to the sewing which I don't like so much. Once the whole top is assembled, I've pretty much hit my "I like" limits. I don't like sandwiching the layers together. I don't like basting. I don't like quilting although if someone does all the other steps for me, I will stipple my brains out -- the only quilting I love, love, LOVE to do. I don't like putting on the binding. I DO love looking at the finished quilt. Now if I could just find a partner who likes doing the parts I hate, I could make a quilt about every other day or so. -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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I KNEW there were more reasons we got along so well Sandy !! I don't even
have to say what i like/don't like cause you've already done it for me!!! 'cept most days i could do w/o ironing too. But it is rather nice to have done it well and move on... -- Kellie kjbeanne at yahoo dot com http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/berger....net/my_photos "Sandy Foster" wrote in message ... I love deciding what quilt/pattern(s) I want to use next. I love looking at and deciding upon fabrics. I'm not crazy about cutting. I love piecing and don't mind pressing, except in the summer when it's too hot to want the iron heating up my room. I don't like sandwiching and basting, nor do I like agonizing over how I'm going to quilt a piece. However, I love quilting it, and I even like binding it and attaching the label. -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education |
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If I could skip the cutting and piecing, the whole quilting process would be perfect.
OOOOH, that's what wholecloth quilts are for. The part I love doing most is getting a whole bunch of donated blocks and setting them into a HUG quilt. -- Jalynne - Keeper of the Quilt for ME club list Queen Gypsy (snail mail available upon request) see what i've been up to at www.100megsfree4.com/jalynne ""Pussywillow" Volfie" wrote in message ... I was piecing a block today and it occured to me that there are very specific parts of building a quilt that I like and very specific parts I don't like (or don't like as much). I like looking at patterns and designs and dreaming up quilts. I like finding, buying, washing, ironing, cutting the fabric. I like cutting out stuff I can cut with a rotary cutter. I like working with patterns and putting the pieces together for sewing. I'm not so wild about the sewing part. I like trimming the sewn pieces to make them square. I like ironing them open. I like pining those pieces together for the next stage. Then I'm back to the sewing which I don't like so much. Once the whole top is assembled, I've pretty much hit my "I like" limits. I don't like sandwiching the layers together. I don't like basting. I don't like quilting although if someone does all the other steps for me, I will stipple my brains out -- the only quilting I love, love, LOVE to do. I don't like putting on the binding. I DO love looking at the finished quilt. Now if I could just find a partner who likes doing the parts I hate, I could make a quilt about every other day or so. |
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We need to form a commune!!! We could each do what we like. I see a booming
busines!! I bet some of us even like to cook and clean. Betty in WI "Jalynne" wrote in message .net... If I could skip the cutting and piecing, the whole quilting process would be perfect. OOOOH, that's what wholecloth quilts are for. The part I love doing most is getting a whole bunch of donated blocks and setting them into a HUG quilt. -- Jalynne - Keeper of the Quilt for ME club list Queen Gypsy (snail mail available upon request) see what i've been up to at www.100megsfree4.com/jalynne ""Pussywillow" Volfie" wrote in message ... I was piecing a block today and it occured to me that there are very specific parts of building a quilt that I like and very specific parts I don't like (or don't like as much). I like looking at patterns and designs and dreaming up quilts. I like finding, buying, washing, ironing, cutting the fabric. I like cutting out stuff I can cut with a rotary cutter. I like working with patterns and putting the pieces together for sewing. I'm not so wild about the sewing part. I like trimming the sewn pieces to make them square. I like ironing them open. I like pining those pieces together for the next stage. Then I'm back to the sewing which I don't like so much. Once the whole top is assembled, I've pretty much hit my "I like" limits. I don't like sandwiching the layers together. I don't like basting. I don't like quilting although if someone does all the other steps for me, I will stipple my brains out -- the only quilting I love, love, LOVE to do. I don't like putting on the binding. I DO love looking at the finished quilt. Now if I could just find a partner who likes doing the parts I hate, I could make a quilt about every other day or so. |
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Yep, know that.
But I like the way binding looks! However, I am going to make a few placemats, and they will be birthed. liz young in rainy california Polly Esther wrote: Ummm, Liz. If you have a bit of a problem with binding, do you know that you really don't have to bind? You can birth the quilt (even a kingsize water bed monster if you must). You can pin the edges nicely and stitch around with something pretty - most SMs from even 1959 can do at least two or three fancy stitches. The edges will be sturdy and if you think about who's going to be hugged by your quilt, the time spent will change from tedious to bearable. Music you love or a fairly hum-drum movie on the DVD will help. Polly "Elizabeth Young" wrote in message m... "Pussywillow" Volfie wrote: I was piecing a block today and it occured to me that there are very specific parts of building a quilt that I like and very specific parts I don't like (or don't like as much). I like picking out a pattern I like picking out fabric I don't much like cutting out I like doing the first several blocks Then I get a little bored and start down the path of increasingly 'interesting' speed piecing methods. Often with 'interesting' results (and a seamripper in there somewhere) I like assembling the finished blocks I don't mind making the sandwich and basting, but I do get tired of little dinky safety pins after a while I like quilting, but don't like having to re=roll the quilt to get to the unquilted bits I loathe binding, loathe loathe, loathe I love vegetating on the couch under my nice new quilt liz young in partly cloudy california |
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I love that idea. Im waiting for Jalynne to buy that farm in the warm
location so I can join up and be the mistress of the herb garden, and tender of goats and chickens. Ill also MQ. Diana -- Weird people need beads, too "Betty in Wi" wrote in message ... We need to form a commune!!! We could each do what we like. I see a booming busines!! I bet some of us even like to cook and clean. Betty in WI "Jalynne" wrote in message .net... If I could skip the cutting and piecing, the whole quilting process would be perfect. OOOOH, that's what wholecloth quilts are for. The part I love doing most is getting a whole bunch of donated blocks and setting them into a HUG quilt. -- Jalynne - Keeper of the Quilt for ME club list Queen Gypsy (snail mail available upon request) see what i've been up to at www.100megsfree4.com/jalynne ""Pussywillow" Volfie" wrote in message ... I was piecing a block today and it occured to me that there are very specific parts of building a quilt that I like and very specific parts I don't like (or don't like as much). I like looking at patterns and designs and dreaming up quilts. I like finding, buying, washing, ironing, cutting the fabric. I like cutting out stuff I can cut with a rotary cutter. I like working with patterns and putting the pieces together for sewing. I'm not so wild about the sewing part. I like trimming the sewn pieces to make them square. I like ironing them open. I like pining those pieces together for the next stage. Then I'm back to the sewing which I don't like so much. Once the whole top is assembled, I've pretty much hit my "I like" limits. I don't like sandwiching the layers together. I don't like basting. I don't like quilting although if someone does all the other steps for me, I will stipple my brains out -- the only quilting I love, love, LOVE to do. I don't like putting on the binding. I DO love looking at the finished quilt. Now if I could just find a partner who likes doing the parts I hate, I could make a quilt about every other day or so. |
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I like all of it, except possibly the pin basting, because you have to
figure how to baste it so as not to interfere too much with the quilting. I don't always know for sure how I'm going to quilt it at that point. Sometimes I change my mind about the quilting after I've pinned, and the darn pins are all in the wrong places! But I like planning, cutting, piecing, pressing, sewing it all together and machine quilting it. I don't mind the binding, and in fact since I make a lot of quillows, which are "birthed" I don't do it that often anyway. Iris |
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Being able to quilt and sew once again...even tho it no longer means being
able to do it by hand. Butterfly |
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