tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414889544611004710.post7435122836922706067..comments2023-08-25T18:00:31.037-04:00Comments on Eat, Sleep, Quilt: Decisions, decisionsEat Sleep Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16128823480396332414noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414889544611004710.post-73592239848724936572011-01-07T22:08:10.867-05:002011-01-07T22:08:10.867-05:00Back around 1994 I read a little book, How NOT to ...Back around 1994 I read a little book, How NOT to Make A PRIZE-WINNING QUILT by Ami Simms. If you haven't read it, you should. It was so funny and will put everything you do into perspective.Julie Fukudahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15704374750710761269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414889544611004710.post-78611325928338557992011-01-07T14:17:55.842-05:002011-01-07T14:17:55.842-05:00Ripping out stitches seems like a lot of work. Do...Ripping out stitches seems like a lot of work. Do it if your really attached to the quilt other wise someone who is down and needing a bit of love would love to receive it. Isn't it fun to look back and see how far we have come?em's scrapbaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02111534162397777000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414889544611004710.post-48857769654569871802011-01-07T11:21:04.907-05:002011-01-07T11:21:04.907-05:00I keep meaning to take photos of a quilt I call &q...I keep meaning to take photos of a quilt I call "My Mistake." I started with a (I thought at the time) really great idea, and hand quilted it densely. <br /><br />After quilting for a very long time and it was about 1/4 done, I really looked it over, and realized it was not going to look like what I had planned, so I took it to the sewing machine, did a really awful job of machine quilting it, and it was done in 2 hours. I bound it, and it's the most reached for quilt in our home.<br /><br />I still admire my own hand quilting stitches in it, and gloss over the horrid machine quilting in it... it's a functional quilt and we all love it.<br /><br />I think just finishing the thing without guilt was the right answer for me, and freed me up to hand quilt something else. But it was big enough to keep a body warm. I've abandoned lots of wall quilts and mini quilts, and I don't feel guilty about those.<br /><br />That said, I think your first quilt is lovely, and even if the fabrics are not to your taste now, they are a yardstick to show where you started and where you are now. And that's worth something.<br /><br />~ RondaMomma Made Thishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16693510458953643109noreply@blogger.com