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09 February 2012

Quilter's Technical Jargon

As I un-scrunched over Terpsichore to come up for a breath of fresh air and to uncross my eyes a few minutes ago I heard myself chanting under my breath, "this is NOT easy!"

It made me realize that there is a pretty long list of classifications for the degree of difficulty for machine quilting. It can get really complicated if you're using a wooly thread or a metallic (most classifications start with four letter words in those categories), but for reasonably straightforward quilting, here are a few of the categories:

IN MY SLEEP


NO PROBLEM


NOT HARD


and the one that provoked this blog post, NOT EASY


I'm quite sure you all feel terribly well educated now.  My pleasure.

3 comments:

  1. Great job on "NOT EASY". I am really impressed with how smooth and well spaced it all is. I am glad there are people like you out there that allow people like me to quilt by check :)

    Hope you are well.

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  2. I learned something, and yes, I do feel terribly well educated as a result. Thanks :)

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  3. " aahh, that is beautiful!" said the illiterate seamstress.

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