dnice Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 Over the labor day weekend I broke my ankle while I was doing agility training with Dylan (Goldne Retreiver full of energy!!!!) Needless to say I am resting and trying to recoup. I am working on an applique mystery quilt and the fall swap quilt. :)A lot of it may be hand pieced. That is what I love about quilting.:cool::P:P You can either load it into the LG or if you can do it by hand. Both are acceptable. What do you love about qilting?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nora123 Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 absolutely anything to do with quilting I love. Nora Millwnnium Washougal WA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doodlebug Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 what's there not to love....? my FAVORITE part....the last stitch in the binding because it means i have a finely finished quilt:) second favorite part: stash building. i love shopping for just the right fabric.... (my least favorite: cutting everything up....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonnie Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 I think Shannon summed up a pretty neat package....I might add the stroking of the fabrics once they are in the stash...playing with them and putting them back because I can't cut them either...and collecting books, patterns and just being around other quilters. And its not always to just talke quilty stuff....just to hang out. And finely the bestest bestest part is giving the quilt away to someone who can use it or just needs a hug.....those are the bestest gifts one can give. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sspingler Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 The creativity. Not only in the piecing and quilting but designing also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercedes Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 Love collecting the notions, tools, fabrics and everything to support my hobby and most of all love learning new things. Practicing something until you "get it" is the best! And I'm going to get a lot of that as I learn how to use my longarm....Mercedes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primitive1 Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 Everything except piecing triangles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 Originally posted by dnice What do you love about quilting?? The people. The people. Everything else is just gravy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daisy2018 Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 I feel best about being creative, as well as useful, I like the definition of "craftperson". In the "old" days, a person could feel really needed for what he could do with his own hands. I like the idea that it produces something real and tangible, that with care could be used, enjoyed, and perhaps passed down as a good memory. I have a deep seated need, from the bad days of childhood, to be valuable and produce, (and thus be worth keeping) and even though I'm well past all that, realize it will always be part of me.... I love feeling the fabric, cutting, sewing , quilting, and final race around the edge binding, to the finish Ta Dah.... I like looking at scraps of the clothing I sewed for my children, and their cabbage patch dolls, even they recognize it all and smile.. I like the color, the geometry, the vibrancy, and the quilters vision on so many quilts, I can spend days in a big show (Houston) and never get enough. I like that quilters are a group of individuals, but come together for our life's events, war, death, birth, fires, personal tragedy,weddings.... I like that quilts wrap you in warmth, much like I envision God's arms comforting. I wrote a lot, I feel a lot about quilting, must have come to it intuitively, as no one in my family really sewed, and I made a very crude quilt for a small doll in a shoebox bed when I was really small. I found my calling, and am so grateful. Quilting , I live it!! Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmcclannan Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 You know I was in a fabric store one day looking for a special fabric and someone in the next aisle said, "I just don't get quilters. They buy perfectly good fabric, cut it up in little pieces, and then sew it back together again." I thought she was right - she just didn't get it! I love every part of quilting and doesn't a quilt make the best gift ever??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 Originally posted by jmcclannan ...someone in the next aisle said, "I just don't get quilters. They buy perfectly good fabric, cut it up in little pieces, and then sew it back together again." I've often thought the same thing myself... Obviously this person has never seen a work of art made up of teeny weeinie tiny pieces all sewn back together! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjdanley Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 All of the above!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 Denise, Sorry to hear about your foot! Sure hope you have a quick recovery. I like just about everything about quilting. I have to agree with Shannon one of my favorite things is the end. I also like the design process and especially the point where you get super excited and realize you know exactly what you are going to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doodlebug Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 i like this quote...(i just remembered it) a quilt is more than the sum of it's stitches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltingjoyful51 Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 Denise, I was just thinking about you today. Sorry to hear about your foot. Hope you get well soon. I love everything about quilting if I don't have to do it by hand. My mom teaches hand pieceing and she still has her students cut out templates. I know how but I don't want to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carolinequilts Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 Pat - I think you've just about summed it up --- and I remember making a shoebox bed for my doll when I was little too! I also LOVE walking into 'my room'. I look around and think how lucky I am. It somehow also gives me a sense of peace.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbi Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 Hey, Denise! Do you need anything? Let me know! I'm off to the Cortland show in the morning, but I can help if you need me... All my life, I've had this creative thing in my head, and now that I'm semi-retired, I get to do it everyday, all day, and night if I want. I LOVE EVERYTHING about it... I especially love the hunt for that great signature piece of fabric, and the designing of the pattern. Right now I have this lovely Robyn Pandolf fabric, so romantic - it's the light aqua blue with pale pinks, and greens and ivory. I can't wait to see it made up but I'm stuck on the pattern.... nothing has struck me yet.... Pat said it all, it's a place we can all go to be accepted and loved... How kool is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boni Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 My favorite part is sleeping under the finished quilt after it's been washed a dozen times and has that crinkly look and feel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rae50 Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 I think that my favorite part is the feel of the fabric while I work with it. I also like to see the quilt after it has been washed and dried. Then it really has it's own personality and character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Linda S Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 I think there is only one thing I don't love about quilting, and that is FROGGING! Otherwise, I love to buy fabric, I actually love to wash, dry, and even PRESS it, I love cutting it, sewing it together, and I love to watch the quilting designs show up as I quilt it. I'm not a fan of flat, flat batting - I love to see the quilting designs in relief. Then, I love snuggling under the quilts too! Get well soon Denice! I'm so sorry to hear about your ankle. Linda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
On Pins and Needles Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 I also love everything about quilting but my favorite part is somewhere near the end. Somewhere after the quilting is done and the binding process is going...and I realize that all those tiny pieces and all those small stitches have actually made a blanket! It's like a miracle to me every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calicoquilter Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 Originally posted by jmcclannan You know I was in a fabric store one day looking for a special fabric and someone in the next aisle said, "I just don't get quilters. They buy perfectly good fabric, cut it up in little pieces, and then sew it back together again." I thought she was right - she just didn't get it! I love every part of quilting and doesn't a quilt make the best gift ever??? One of my co-workers said the exact same thing. She, however, was into geneology. I told her that when I was done, I had a useful item that I could sleep under. When she was done with her research, all she had was a list of dead people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyLake Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 Two things: Color and being busy stitching with other women. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimmiequilts Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 One of my co-workers said the exact same thing. She, however, was into geneology. I told her that when I was done, I had a useful item that I could sleep under. When she was done with her research, all she had was a list of dead people. :o:D Too funny! I love it all the shopping for the fabrics, the stash building, the patterns and books. I loved working with customers at the LQS, helping them to create a wonderful, warm, care-filled gift! I've loved all things crafty since I was a child, must've gotten it from my paternal Grandmother and Great-Grandmother who taught me so much. I love sharing my passion with others and seeing the AH-HA moments when I teach! "What's not to love" only cheap fabrics or ratty battings, all of the rest is all the cream at the top of the milk bottle! I sure hope that your foot heals quickly, and I highly recommend Donna Lynn Thomas' book 'Portable Patchwork' for more ideas on projects that can be hand and machine pieced! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountainquilter Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 Denice, I probably have slept under a quilt all my soon to be 60 + years. My grandma was a quilter and I have been for over 30 + years. Can't sleep without one on the bed. I love the excitment of going into a quilt shop to see what is new, I love going into my sewing room and touching the projects, I love decorating my house with my quilting and at last count I have about 25 quilted items being displayed. I eat, sleep, dream, breathe quilting. I started out hand piecing everything and hand quilting. Now I have moved over to Lenni. I have a good size home and next summer if anyone would like to come and have a quilt fest for a few days let me know. Just me and hubby, Sage the over friendly Golden Retriever and Denny the friendly cat. You wouldn't be disappointed. Love, love quilting. The basement walls are finished so now I am hanging quilts down there. Non-quilters think I am crazy but I love looking at quilts, wallhangings, I love touching them and thinking of the enjoyment when I made them. Mountainquilter Diana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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