I very much enjoyed this talk by a Canadian quilter who spoke to the Sew Squad that is hosted by the incompable Libs Elliot.
She talked about the kind of quilter that she is and then went on to explain what it is about Improvisation that really speaks to her.
Improv is definitely not my love language, but as she went through the various sorts of quilters it gave me some time to reflect on what kind of quilter I am.
The list is as such:
1. Quality Control
2. Replication
3. Artisanal
4. Expressive
5. Improvisational
The quality control quilted is all about the control. The seam ripper is always at hand because this quilter is acutely aware of the mistakes and is obsessive about fixing them. They are pinners. They have great pride in the craft of precision quilting.
This is decidedly not me--I am attracted to gluing and I do occasionally pin. I also seam rip with more frequency than I would like to admit, but it is needs must, not fixing something that is a tich off.
The replication quilter finds kits very appealing. They cannot imporvise even if they run out of fabric. They look for the exact fabric that is pictured in the pattern. While I am a big fan of a pattern, this is decidedly NOT me. I love doing a different color way, and if I run our, or as happened recently, the kit didn't have enough fabric, I just winged it and the other kit I bought I am already planning substitutions for my next one.
I am surprised to find that Artisanal is my jam--handwork gets me excited! I love hand dyed and woven fabrics. They warm me.
I do have a comfort with wonkiness that is part of improv, and I want more access to that, but I am not there yet, and I am also working on expressive, where I am getting to a point of view and how to tell the story. So her lecture taught me a lot about myself as a quilter.
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