Aimless musings about personality and quilting

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. · 2005-12-05T14:28:22+00:00

I've been sewing since 4 a.m. due to a pain-filled night. It's mydistraction when it gets rough. While mindlessly sewing strips for abunch of 4 patches for the Christmas Tennessee Waltz quilts, I got tothinking about how my basic personality traits strictly dictate whattype of quilts I make. This type of sewing is when I do my best"thinking".I am attracted to very colorful, dramatic, high contrast, intricatelypieced quilts which I *am* capable of making- think Karen Stone, JanKrentz, Ruth McDowell, Velda Newman, Caryl Breyer Fallert, etc. Yet Imake simple quilts that I can speed piece and finish quickly but arenot very satisfying to me. I am basically lazy... as an accountant inmy working years, my employers always commented on how "efficient" Iwas at work. I will put a lot of effort into finding the easiest,quickest and most accurate way of doing things- anything. This worksright into my Virgo perfectionist tendencies. So, all my large quiltsare quite simple- blocks and settings I can strip piece, triangles Ican sew on grids, bits and pieces I can chain piece, etc. I couldnever make a scrap quilt because I would go crazy not being able to cutmassive numbers of fabric at one time- even tho I love the look ofscrap quilts. Yet trying to make a Log Cabin quilt with 120 identicalblocks drives me nuts with the repetition. I push the limit and cut 10or 12 layers of fabric with my rotary cutter. I just had to re-cut apile of 15.5 inch squares... they had some folds in the lower layersbecause the fabrics shifted. grrrrrrr! This type of frustration withmyself can easily lead to another UFO. (I did re-cut and continue withthe blocks for these two Christmas quilts. Yay!)On smaller quilts I can stretch and get more involved because by thevery nature of being small I can get that instant gratification I need. If I try it on a large quilt, I have a guaranted UFO. By finallyrecognizing this, I am slowing down on my stack of UFOs, WIPs and PIGs. I usually can't...

Dec 05, 2005 23 Replies

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Jessamy 20 years ago

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there you go.. it might explain things.

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Shona in NZ 20 years ago

Gosh... Are you my long lost twin sister? Other than the fact that I am a Taurus, you have so perfectly described me it's scary :-)

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hfw 20 years ago

Yup! My screenname used to be rav2b, but I need to change it...ibRav?

--Heidi

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QuiltsWithCatFur 20 years ago

Oh Heidi that would be a terrific screen name, even better if you did your teaching in rap music. Cyndi

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