Another conversation about quilting (1 of 3)
When my daughter met her friend’s mom, she came home to tell
me that she thought we’d get along well because we had so much in common, and
especially because we both quilted. Naturally, I was looking forward to meeting
her at a little gathering recently. She turned out to be a lovely, warm person.
I brought up our mutual interest, when we finally had the opportunity to chat.
She responded that she really enjoyed sewing the tops of quilts, but she didn’t
really like the quilting part… in other words she didn’t like to finish them
off. “Ah Ha!”, I thought, “I totally get where you’re coming from!!!”
I've developed the quilters' habit of picking up fabric for my "stash",
sometimes with no clue as to how it will be used... but it will be used eventually.
It wasn’t that long ago that I felt exactly the same way.
Finding a pattern to try, deciding on a color scheme, pulling all the fabrics
together… in other words, the planning stages would get the creative juices
flowing. Then it was exciting to see the plans materialize. Pieces sewn to
pieces became block after block. Block sewn to block became sections which
would eventually all come together and magically emerge as a quilt top. The
interesting part finished, I was ready to go back to planning the next project,
to move on to something new. If not for the strong impulse to finish what I
start, I would have a closet full of unfinished quilt tops.
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