What kind of quilter are you??

I am going to be doing something I don't ever do--I'm going to break out of my traditional personal quilting process!! Yikes!

I have a theory that in general there are two kinds of quilter processes: 1. There's me--very linear in my approach to any project. I organize ALL the fabric, then cut all the fabric needed for the entire project, and then I very methodically follow through the piecing process completing each section of piecing fully before moving to the next segment of piecing, making each block section in order--get the picture? My DH has described it as "puckered" (as in anal retentive)--but it works for me. I will make every single block of a quilt before ever even thinking about laying them out.

Then there's 2. like my friend Susan (my shopping buddy from yesterday). I tease her a lot about her methodology for constructing her quilts because it is so different from mine! She will cut some of the fabric, make some block pieces, then make a handful of blocks, lay out those few blocks, cut some more fabric, piece a little more, add to the layout.....I don't want to say her approach isn't "linear"--it's a line, it's just more like the line a bumblebee follows when zooming around a huge field of flowers!

So here I am working on the wedding quilt again this morning. I am sewing the hexagon halves into vertical strips and these vertical strips are stacking up next to each other on the design wall, and it is KILLING ME!!! I must know NOW what it is going to look like when the vertical strips are sewn together! This is SO not my usual modus operandi--this is the bumble bee approach! But I can't wait this time--can't sew all the vertical strips before starting to put them together. As soon as I finish the strip I'm making now, the strips that are done so far are getting put together! DH is giving me some weird looks 'cause he knows this is not normal for me.

So, quilters out there, are you puckered (maybe we should call it "linear" to be more politically correct!) or are you a bumble bee? If I get any interesting data I'll be sure to post the results!