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UN-learning and RE-learning how to quilt
I've been making all types of quilts for almost twenty years as well as
having taught quilting classes for about 6-7 years in the mid-90s till our local fabric store went out of business. I've found that I need to go back to beginner's books periodically and un-learn or re-learn my techniques. I *know* how to do it, but I find sometimes I wander off the path and develop bad habits and/or get sloppy (mostly in my cutting and safety practices with the rotary cutter). If my basic skills aren't excellent my more advanced skills will suffer since I don't have a strong foundation to build on. Also, new and better methods and tools are being developed every day and I need to keep up with the advances being made in our craft. Do you find yourself getting in a rut or complacent and needing to un-learn bad habits and re-learn correct basic techinques? Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. |
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LOL! No - but I have never considered myself an "excellent" quilter. I'm a
Git-r-Done (LARRY THE CABLE GUY) Quilter. -- http://community.webshots.com/user/snigdibbly SNIGDIBBLY ~e~ " / \ http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/snigdibbly. http://www.ebaystores.com/snigdibbly...ox&refid=store "Leslie & The Furbabies in MO." wrote in message oups.com... I've been making all types of quilts for almost twenty years as well as having taught quilting classes for about 6-7 years in the mid-90s till our local fabric store went out of business. I've found that I need to go back to beginner's books periodically and un-learn or re-learn my techniques. I *know* how to do it, but I find sometimes I wander off the path and develop bad habits and/or get sloppy (mostly in my cutting and safety practices with the rotary cutter). If my basic skills aren't excellent my more advanced skills will suffer since I don't have a strong foundation to build on. Also, new and better methods and tools are being developed every day and I need to keep up with the advances being made in our craft. Do you find yourself getting in a rut or complacent and needing to un-learn bad habits and re-learn correct basic techinques? Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. |
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That's just like a musician who will still practise scales even when he
is practising for a concert hall performance. .. In message .com, Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. writes I've been making all types of quilts for almost twenty years as well as having taught quilting classes for about 6-7 years in the mid-90s till our local fabric store went out of business. I've found that I need to go back to beginner's books periodically and un-learn or re-learn my techniques. I *know* how to do it, but I find sometimes I wander off the path and develop bad habits and/or get sloppy (mostly in my cutting and safety practices with the rotary cutter). If my basic skills aren't excellent my more advanced skills will suffer since I don't have a strong foundation to build on. Also, new and better methods and tools are being developed every day and I need to keep up with the advances being made in our craft. Do you find yourself getting in a rut or complacent and needing to un-learn bad habits and re-learn correct basic techinques? Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting, Sep/Oct 05 has just come in. I thought of
Leslie when I considered Lynette Jensen's block on page 98. For those of you who have this magazine, have you tossed the instructions around in your head and do you see a better way to do it? Just wondering. Polly (and yes, I still practice scales, concert or no. They take the kinks out of my fingers and brain.) "Patti" wrote in message ... That's just like a musician who will still practise scales even when he is practising for a concert hall performance. |
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In article t,
"Polly Esther" wrote: Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting, Sep/Oct 05 has just come in. I thought of Leslie when I considered Lynette Jensen's block on page 98. For those of you who have this magazine, have you tossed the instructions around in your head and do you see a better way to do it? Just wondering. Polly (and yes, I still practice scales, concert or no. They take the kinks out of my fingers and brain.) I haven't gotten my copy yet. Now I'm most curious about how she puts these blocks together. Here's a picture for those without the magazine http://www.fonsandporter.com/storefr...ottagewood.asp marcella |
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In message , Marcella Peek writes In article t, "Polly Esther" wrote: Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting, Sep/Oct 05 has just come in. I thought of Leslie when I considered Lynette Jensen's block on page 98. For those of you who have this magazine, have you tossed the instructions around in your head and do you see a better way to do it? Just wondering. Polly (and yes, I still practice scales, concert or no. They take the kinks out of my fingers and brain.) I haven't gotten my copy yet. Now I'm most curious about how she puts these blocks together. Here's a picture for those without the magazine http://www.fonsandporter.com/storefr...ottagewood.asp marcella -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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Thanks for the picture, Marcella. No magazine here!
I see what you mean, Polly, about the possibilities of different ways of putting the block together. Of course, I don't know what they suggested g So, I only have my own ideas. .. In message , Marcella Peek writes I haven't gotten my copy yet. Now I'm most curious about how she puts these blocks together. Here's a picture for those without the magazine http://www.fonsandporter.com/storefr...ottagewood.asp marcella -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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YOU GO GIRL!! Common sense is so refreshing.
-- http://community.webshots.com/user/snigdibbly SNIGDIBBLY ~e~ " / \ http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/snigdibbly. http://www.ebaystores.com/snigdibbly...ox&refid=store "Cheryl" wrote in message ... I have two distinct quilt-making styles. One is for classes when I know I am being watched, and the other is for me when I am alone. Don't ask me how but over the years I have developed the habit of switching between the two without even thinking about it. On bad habits - as long as someone is not a physical threat to themselve, other quilters or their quilts - I will let them go at it however they are comfortable. They are warned about posture, backache, blunting tools, etc of course, and shown the traditional methods and sometimes my own variation. But if they really want to do things their own wat why shouldn't they? That's how new and better methods are developed. They might even teach me a thing or two. Most of them settle into pretty "normal" habits quickly but not forcing them seems to work better. -- Cheryl ^;;^ ^;;^ ^;;^ http://community.webshots.com/user/witchofthewest catsatararat (YAHOO msgr) A large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced to send this - at least read it. "Leslie & The Furbabies in MO." wrote in message oups.com... I've been making all types of quilts for almost twenty years as well as having taught quilting classes for about 6-7 years in the mid-90s till our local fabric store went out of business. I've found that I need to go back to beginner's books periodically and un-learn or re-learn my techniques. I *know* how to do it, but I find sometimes I wander off the path and develop bad habits and/or get sloppy (mostly in my cutting and safety practices with the rotary cutter). If my basic skills aren't excellent my more advanced skills will suffer since I don't have a strong foundation to build on. Also, new and better methods and tools are being developed every day and I need to keep up with the advances being made in our craft. Do you find yourself getting in a rut or complacent and needing to un-learn bad habits and re-learn correct basic techinques? Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. |
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On 18 Aug 2005 08:49:40 -0700, "Leslie & The Furbabies in MO."
wrote: I've been making all types of quilts for almost twenty years as well as having taught quilting classes for about 6-7 years in the mid-90s till our local fabric store went out of business. I've found that I need to go back to beginner's books periodically and un-learn or re-learn my techniques. I *know* how to do it, but I find sometimes I wander off the path and develop bad habits and/or get sloppy (mostly in my cutting and safety practices with the rotary cutter). If my basic skills aren't excellent my more advanced skills will suffer since I don't have a strong foundation to build on. Also, new and better methods and tools are being developed every day and I need to keep up with the advances being made in our craft. Do you find yourself getting in a rut or complacent and needing to un-learn bad habits and re-learn correct basic techinques? Yes Ma'am! I do a lot of sewing, and if I don't keep myself in order I swap over techniques inappropriately. For example I have gone and sewn entire blocks with a 3/8 or a 5/8 seam allowance. Now there would be nothing wrong with that, except I cut most blocks with a quarter inch allowance. If it is a block with curves things can get really ugly when you do a dumb like that! So if I have done a fair bit of garment sewing I will sit myself down and run over the simplest things about putting together a quilt before I so much as take the cover off the machine. Vice-versa if I am sitting down to make clothes after a long stretch of quilting. Sometimes I will sit down and put myself in the right mindframe by sketching out a design and doing the math for it. Sometimes I will pick up a book or three and read through basic techniques. Though I do that mostly for garment sewing as I have reletively few quilting books. Sometimes I just rattle off a mini project that takes a specific skill I have to focus on. Since I mostly do Really Big Quilts I want to be in the right sewing mode and proceeding with confidence. Otherwise I will end up ripping a whole great lot. Having the basics in order and done well are what make the quilt IMHO. NightMist -- "To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains." -Mary Pettibone Poole |
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