What is the hardest pattern? technique used to make a quilt?

[Annette R.]

What is the hardest pattern? technique used to make a quilt?

Did you complete the quilt? project?

Did it become a UFO?

What did you learn from entire attempt?




Saw this on a blog and it got me thinking, as many of the things that are really hard end up in a UFO BOX.



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[Annette R.]

My Double wedding rings!! My first one ended up a UFO because it refused to lay flat enough to quilt properly. The second one was good though, and I did eventually make a queen sized one for my SIL for her wedding :-) Maybe someday I will pull back out and figure out a way to make that first one behave so I can quilt it.

[Annette R.]

I do not know if it is the hardest thing I have done, but I have a quilt partially put together that has been sitting in the UFO pile for quite a few years now.

It is a quilt that I started to hand quilt using the quilt-as-you-go method. It is waiting for the borders to be added. I discovered I absolutely detest the method. I would much rather put the whole top together and hand quilt it all at one time, rather than doing it in sections. I do not like the extra seams on the back. I do not like having to lay it out each time to sew strips together and then quilting in that area, then repeating the process to add the next partially quilted panel.

You get the idea.

Question, is it difficult, or is it really you do not care for the method?

[Annette R.]

Not liking the method / technique/ color / quilt blocks/ etc counts as far as this question goes.

I usually find I start some project using a technique that I do not care for... ie HAND WORK... make my hands ache so bad I can not go to work so I avoid it whenever possible.

[Annis C.]

Hexagons and hand sewing. A grandmother's flower garden is my only unfinished project from years ago before there were rotary cutters. I had it sewn into rings and took it apart not long ago to recut the pieces using a hexagon ruler and maybe do a redesign but haven't touched it since. It's still on my to do list though.

[Keith D.]

Great topic again, Lady Anna! I think for me it would be curved seams. I wanted very badly to do a compass but resisted until I drafted one in an octogan instead of a circle. And now I applique (or piece-lique) all curves. One day I'll bite the bullet and do some classic curved seam piecing... Maybe make a Wheel of Wonder or Wedding Ring or something...

[Gloria H.]

Curved piecing and Y seams make me nervous but so much of what I want to do involves those techniques. I know I won't ever do a double wedding ring or a hexagon quilt. They just don't appeal. I used to cringe at the A word but have started getting more comfortable with that too.

[Gloria H.]

The technique that defeated me was BETTY COTTON THEORY QUILT AS YOU GO. I started two projects with that technique as I wanted to quilt the project as I went along.... never finished either one... and I cringe each time I see the blocks.

FUN AND DONE technique is much easier and less bulky with less work even though it is a similar technique. I kind of like that technique and have made several sofa thows using the technique.


I NEED TO FINISH MORE UFOs.
Anna

[Betty J.]

For me, the hardest technique is foundation piecing. I just can't seem to get it right no matter how hard I try. I understand the basic technique and have successfully done it, but I always have to think about it way too much. This is odd, too, because I can read upside down and sideways and never have problems with other types of relational space things...there's just something about the flipping in foundation piecing I can't seem to get. :lol: ops: