That Quilt is Cheating!

LeahDay

Leah Day has been teaching online since 2009. She's the creator of the Free Motion Quilting Project, a blog filled with thousands of quilting tutorial videos. Leah has written several books including 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day, and Mally the Maker and the Queen in the Quilt.

7 Responses

  1. I don't think there's any cheating – if any of the techniques help someone to spend time being creative then that is a bonus is my mind, especially when many of us are also full-time working mums – if we can find a way to get a project done that little bit more quickly, then that's all good!

  2. I don't think anything is cheating. Handwork vs machine sewing – each is its own technique and one requires a different set of skills than the other. Bottom line is I appreciate the work in every kind of quilting while certain types just don't appeal to me as something I want to experience.

  3. shoshu says:

    thumbs up! very well expressed. as with many things in out world today, we tend to forget that we started doing……[fill in the blank], because we love, it, because we want to learn something new, because we need an outlet to express, because of many reasons, but not in order to compare ourselves, or to camelian into someone elses thoughts or to create more stress in our own lives.

  4. Carla says:

    I don't that I call it cheating but I might have thought it was against the rules or lazy but yeah I'm all for making a quilt or embroidery work that's pretty and put together well and get it done. I'm learning that all the rules of quilting are up to the quilter in a lot of circumstances.

  5. I LOVE cheater quilts. I originally bought them for my daughters-2, but spent so much time working and taking care of them that I didn't have any time for sewing. Fast forward 30 or so years, now I have a granddaughter who is getting all those cheater quilts that I didn't have time for back then. I'm working on a Suzy's Zoo crib quilt right now, but have completed 10 or so cloth books that I bought way-back-when. I have vowed to complete one a month until my supply is completed. I also have Halloween costumes, that were "cheaters" from the 80's that I did complete. They were produced by Cranston and sold through Walmart. They were especially great because they had glow-in-the-dark on each costume which was desirable for a Halloween costume
    Rosemary

  6. Lindyg says:

    I'd take a gift of a so call cheater quilt or a regular quilt any day and be just tickled. What do I like better, its all in the color and design.

  7. co coya says:

    I used to have some Araucanos. They were great brooding hens!

    Royal1688

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