I am a bit of a rebel quilter. I have come up against the quilt police and the quilt snobs a time or two. While I have enormous respect for the competition quality quilters, I also believe there is room for everyone, every style, every level, every technique and every design choice. I also believe that if I don’t personally like someone’s design choice I can still celebrate their accomplishment without being disrespectful.
So over the years, I’ve come up with my own set of Rulz for Quilting.
1 make it structurally sound. (Doesn’t matter how messy or what width your seams are, as long as it holds together.)
2 Finish it up and move on, dearie. (Yes, I still hear that wonderful quilters voice in my head. She said finish it, learn from it, move on.)
3 if you can’t see it from the back of a galloping horse, it isn’t there. And even if you know it is, you have absolutely no obligation to disclose that fact. It was a design choice.
Quilt away … I’ll show myself out to the tune of ‘corners don’t meet and I don’t care’
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AIMR
(Linda -In the year 2025, I am happy to be alive! :us:)
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I’d never finish a quilt if I went by some of the “rules”.
I am a firm believing in learning and mastering techniques but also in practicing and being realistic. Some quilts, I am very careful as I am trying to learn a pattern or improve my skills; other quilts, I just want a finished product!
I do think we are harder on ourselves than others, so that needs to be given up so that the experience of making something is joyful!
I’ve actually become much more meticulous than when I first started. But that is because I want to do it that way. Not because it is how it 'has’to be done. I probably wouldn’t have ever quilted again if that sweet finish it up and move on dearie lady hadn’t given me permission to make mistakes and celebrate my finished quilt.
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Cindy
(🇨🇦 … keeping my Joy in a chaotic world …)
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Absolutely these rules apply to you. Quilting, like most crafts, is a process. No one starts out perfect. The perfect ones, probably aren’t telling you the truth about late night cursing at the seam ripper and copy print on fabric to get the last block they need because they messed up 5 times and can’t buy any more… So have fun. Ignore anyone who tells you otherwise.
