Is patience required?

In my experience, patience is required for EVERYTHING, not just making quilt blocks...

That apart, yes, it takes patience, determination, skill, and knowledge, all of which can be acquired, with patience... ;)

Guilty! (Or , DW was. But I believe she started with either a class or one of those (huge) block-a-month kits with 12 blocks. She bought the kits ahead and I think she finished it in about 6 months total.) I'm guilty of some ambition myself. I see a lot of CQers doing block projects, and at some future date will ostensibly assemble a bunch of them into a quilt. My first project is a wall hanging, and then the plan is to move on to a lap quilt (or several). But CQs are probably not a valid comparison (construction differences).

Seems to happen in most hobbies. People dream big! :-)

Doc

Do you have MAD magazine over there? :-) ("What, me worry?")

No worries - winkie, winkie.

Doc (With too much big stuff to worry about/sweat the small stuff...)

That sounds (in my best Jack Black/Kung Fu Panda voice) so incredibly AWESOME!!! Pics please, even if it's just the top? :-D

Doc

Hey... You snooze - you lose! 8^P (How many times have I heard THAT one?)

You make a good point Leslie. That said, my first quilt was a bed quilt--hand-pieced AND hand-quilted. It took me years to do. Surprisingly, I was never bored with it, and it only whetted my appetite to do more. So, I began using the machine. Finally came to the realization that I simply don't find the same joy in using the machine as I do by making quilts by hand (although I have machine projects I need to finish). And using the machine doesn't really cut down the AMOUNT of work. Yes, it can go faster, especially for those truly gifted machine quilters--which does not include me--but it's still a heckuva a lot of work.

So as to patience, I think when a person quilts, s/he must truly enjoy the process, by whatever means it gets done, because nothing is going to be done immediately. Despite using myself as an example--a person who came from a long line of quilters--I agree, most newbies would do better to start small.

Best regards, Michelle in Nevada

You bet, it's reason enough Edna! In fact, it's the MOST IMPORTANT reason. ;-)

Best regards, Michelle in Nevada

I used to say: "Patience is a virtue.... I don't have"

My hubby says: "Patience is a vulture."

Gotta love it!

Trixie

It only took about ten years of nagging, Roberta. Really. You know what though? Edna Pearl doesn't live that far from the Swamp. If she doesn't shape up soon, I'll just buy her a camera and go show her how to use it. We could swap skills; maybe she could teach me how to answer our cell phone. It could happen. Polly

"Roberta" How many years did it take us to nag Polly into getting a digital

Patience is required for almost anything new we learn. We may come in with a preconceived idea of how to accomplish [fill in the blank here

- be it skateboarding, riding a unicycle, building 3-D elephant out of Legos, making a quilt]. there is a learning curve. We get impatient to experience the end result and find the learning curve of it all [having the skateboard shoot out from under foot, falling off the unicycle, elephant looks like a water buffalo, quilt is a "what was I thinking?"] without the patience and determination, we may walk away and not continue. We have to convince ourselves and those who want to learn, that it's okay to make mistakes and that's part of the process.

My first quilt was a king-size, for my folks' 45th wedding anniversary. I did one more that same size, now everything is smaller ;)

Patience is good, determination is good. I like to see that the idea/ design in my head matches the finished product. Don't get me started on patience with electronics - that I don't have!

G> This was the question that was forwarded to me this morning along with

Thank your DH for the giggle, Trixie. :-)

Best regards, Michelle > I used to say: "Patience is a virtue.... I don't have"

I saw a little $20 digital camera with a USB port and some species of photo software at the drugstore the other day. Probably intended for kids. Would that be enough? Do different cameras have different degrees of resolution or whatever?

And is Picasa a good place to post? How much does that cost? (Times are tough all over, you know. :-)

ep

That would be quite sufficient; and, if you don't ever want to do much else, you could stick with that one. I think you will find that the fun of sharing pictures is worth the initial outlay.

There are loads of levels of different quality; but why not start with something inexpensive until you see how you manage with it (and get hooked!).

Picasa might be a free photo-sharing site? There are many of those around. I use Flickr - it has a free section (I opted for a small annual charge to be free of adverts and not to be limited to the amount I could store there). Webshots is free, but has a lot of adverts - some with sound that are annoying and some flashing ones. There are more I'm sure - someone else will chip in to let you know about them.

Believe me, if I can use a site, and load the pictures, then honestly anyone can. I have an instinctive barrier to all things technical..... >gI saw a little $20 digital camera with a USB port and some species of photo

That's a thought... Does she have a camera built-in to her cell phone?

Nope, but my SO does. Just before I read your message, we took a couple of pictures. However, he can't transfer his cell phone pictures directly to a computer, so we have to e-mail the pictures from his cell phone to his brother in KANSAS, who will then e-mail the pictures to my computer here in ALABAMA (isn't this ridiculous?) and then I can upload them to a photo host. So this may take a while.

Thanks, all, ep