I just watched a video of a quilter who insisted a quilting technique is bad and wrong and doesn’t make any sense.
BLEH. This “video quilt show wanna-be” has been quilting for just a couple of years, at best. I’ve been machine quilting, teaching, professionally quilting and been published for fifteen years – and I teach the technique that she disparages.
I sure wish the world were less filled with people who insist that their way is the only way and that everyone else is wrong.
I hope that you do things YOUR way and I know that I will be happy as I continue to do things MY way.
That is why I no longer take my quilts to my local shop for help. I don’t make them for prize entry, but I am always told…you didn’t use a scant 1/4″, you didn’t turn your binding here or there, etc. I quilt because I enjoy it!
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Oh I was re-visiting this idea yesterday again. I might even make a video. I am so unhappy about *some* people telling others “you are wrong”. I was brought up with MYOB. And in quilting, unless you are trying to please some judge somewhere (and why would you want to do that?) any quilt, ANY quilt, is a beautiful thing.
Thanks for your comment and your invite Jean, it is always great to hear from you!! I hope your new job is going wonderfully well!! Marguerita
That’s why there is chocolate and vanilla, everybody’s way is right if that is what they like.
I feel the same way has you Margarite, I love what you do and love your book keep up the good work, I certainly will be doing it my way.
Shirley, in Canada!
Hi Shirley! Good for you! Thank you for your note, it sure brightened my day
Hi, Just now have been watching some of your videos. Thank you so much. People laugh when I tell them there are controversies in quilting. I had one woman turn her back on me mid-sentence when I admitted I machine quilted. What horror. I have given quilting a bad name. Bad me. My husband was honestly shocked.
Thanks again.
Will give it a go, this machine quilting, have only hand-quilted but seeing you on youtube has made me think, hmm, lets try this