Liberated quilting

Posted by kratersge on October 29, 2009, 2:37 pm

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No, if she wasn't embarrassed then it wasn't embarrassing. If she
bragged, she was *proud* of the quilt, and she should be.

I think that's really the point about beginners. When teaching a
beginner or a child, don't kill their joy by projecting experienced
quality values onto them. If they can't see the mistakes, then they
AREN'T mistakes.

Over time, most people find their way to the kind of quilting that
gives them the most satisfaction. For some, that's going to be
precision. For others, "quickness". For some people, stab
quilting, although this one I have a hard time understanding.

No one would ever accuse me of "liberated" quilting, since my favorite
is needle turn applique of curvy organic shapes with silk thread that
takes me 1-2 years to finish, but it's the relaxing type for me.
Doing pieced quilts on a machine drives me CRAZY if I have to care
about precision. They only happen as spontaneous "stash" quilts with
reckless fabric choices.

I just finished a round in our round robin. I was going to tuck in
all the extra fabric so it was available to the next round. Ha! I
decided this actually did have to be square and flat since it was a
group project. By the time I was done mangling everyting with mis-cut
and mis-sewn pieces, there was no extra fabric (we made a rule you
have to at least put in a fat quarter if you put fabric in).

Susan K
see my quilts: members.cox.net/kratersge

Posted by Pat in Virginia on October 31, 2009, 3:10 pm

My take on this is that if she mentioned measuring and precision, then she
WAS aware of those common concerns. She was bragging that she could make a
quilt with out such constraints. That is her right of course, but I do like
to have my seams be in very close alignment. OTOH, I have occasionally made
free form type log cabins and stack and slash blocks that purposely do not
align with in the blocks. However, those are obviously free form efforts and
not mistakes. There is a difference. Having said all that, I would like to
say that I am glad that quilting offers such a variety of style, technique
and skill .... all of which can give us pleasure.
Pat in Virginia

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