WHAT DOES PATCHWORK TEACH?

When we start talking about patchwork, we say DO YOU WANT ME TO TEACH YOU PATCHWORK? but have you ever thought about WHAT PATCHWORK TEACHES YOU?

Well let me tell:

The first step to starting a quilt is to prepare all the elements that will be needed to make the pattern that you have chosen.

Once you have decided to make a quilt pattern, you will want to have all the fabric handy to start working, you are not going to go back and forth to the store as you can only start once you have all the fabric coordinated if you want to have a pleasing looking quilt.

That teaches ORGANIZATION

When you start cutting or sewing your fabric, these different steps need to be identical for every piece that is prepared in order for the end result to look straight rather then wonky, 

Once you have chosen the pattern and the fabric, you start cutting the shapes out, all those shapes need to be exactly the same wether you use a paper template or an acrylic template.

After that you move on to the piecing, you apply a seam allowance of a quarter inch on all your sewing in order for your blocks to have all the same appearance.

That teaches you CONSISTENCY

In patchwork you have to follow an order of work, you can't skip to the end of the project as all the steps (cutting, piecing, quilting, binding) need to be done one after the other.

That teaches you CONCENTRATION

Wether you are a beginner or an expert, these three lessons will be applied no matter what.

Patchwork for me empties my mind, I am so concentrated on what I am doing that I don't think of anything else, I can be watching something on my tv, but then watching is a big word as I will be mostly listening!!

Have a good week.

Emmanuelle