A number of the quilting blogs I follow have revealed their 10 quilty little secrets. Such fun! Sew I thought I would jump on the band wagon and tell you mine.
Click on the image to go to 13 spools blog for the 10 quilty secrets of other bloggers
1) I always iron, pressing is for flowers.
2) I save EVERY scrap.
3) I love, love, love binding by hand.
4) My enabler thought Best Press was meant to put IN the iron. It took me a whole day to steam the crud out. It was black, and gross. I ruined a white towel.
5) I have more ideas/plans than time (I’ve downloaded a couple hundred pictures of quilts I hope to use as inspiration at some point). I have more fabric than ideas/plans (this is obscene if you’ve read the previous comment in parentheses).
6) I sew a double seam 1/2″ apart when sewing small squares onto larger squares to make triangles on the corners, cut between the seams and save the trimmed off triangles as even smaller HSTs (see #2).
7) My enabler has a long arm Gammill. I’d rather quilt my projects on my sewing machine. It hurts his feelings.
8) I love, love, love William Morris and civil war reproduction fabrics (Barbara Brackman is my hero) and prefer traditional quilts.
9) The smaller the pieces the better, one day I’m going to attempt Primitive Gatherings “9”.
10) It was tradition in my previous congregation to give a quilt to people moving away. When I was called to a new congregation, they said they weren’t giving me one because I quilt. I protested “Not Fair!” and asked for (demanded) one anyway.
Job 11:5-6
5 Oh, how I wish that God would speak,
that he would open his lips against you
6 and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom,
for true wisdom has two sides.
Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.
I can identify with a number of these,,,,adore scraps and have an obscene amount of fabric which I am not sewing at the moment. However would not knock the Gammil…….LOL.
Oh, I love my hubby, and the Gammill. It’s just more often than not I prefer to quilt on my domestic machine.
would he let you use his Gammill?
Yes. I’m reluctant to do so though, it might be one more thing I acquire an obsession for. :D!
love that you demanded a quilt! We love them more than other people! When dh and I married, I was peeved that his mother made us a cross stitch instead of a quilt. hmph! LeeAnna at not afraid of color!
Hi LeeAnna! Was just checking out your site. Love your stuff. This whole quilting thing started when the instructor of the group at my church wouldn’t give me one. I thought I’d show her who could learn how to quilt and look at where THAT got me. I’m now obsessed!