red picnic quilt

[Magot]

Beautiful Laura, 300 hours to be passable! Sheesh! I can't afford that much fabric!.

I am much huge overwrite mistakes on my quilt but I don't care as it has a look that is all mine!

[susandf]

I absolutely love the colors of that quilt... I just finished a grey/black monochromatic quilt top for my son and I feel I am suffering from color deprivation! Your quilt was the antidote I desperately needed!

As for "300 hours to passable" - that is why my quilts go to a Long Arm Quilter.

[sewingmom]

I agree with Lennie. You can't let that ruin your desire to learn the art of FMQ. My DGS just decided not to learn to play the barritone sax because the man we were going to rent from said he would have to have private lessons and practice 3 hours a day. I know he will have to practice a lot but to discourage the boy from even trying just gripes me. I was willing to pay for 6 months rent on the instrument and asked a man at church to teach DGS for free.

[HeyJudee]

Gosh... I missed seeing this quilt before. It's just FANTASTIC!!!

And as to learning FMQ, some people will have the knack and pick it up quickly, some will take lots of practice to "get it" and some others won't get it no matter how much they practice. It's the same as any other skill...IMHO.

[Magot]

300 hours - rubbish! Mine is not accurate but I love it. Laura - I admire the way you take so much care over the backs of your quilts.. Mine are a disaster but I figure that bit goes on the bed so who cares!

[bridesmom]

I find the piecing on the backs just uses up the extra fabric I had from the top! Sometimes I like the backs better than the tops LOL. I still have this quilt at home, found it in a pile while cleaning up in the basement, so it's now in a box on my dining room table with the grandkids lego and horse quilts and will get sent on the bus on Friday. They are in the middle of moving this coming weekend so a little present after the move will be a picker upper I hope as it's not exactly the move they wanted to make.