Crashnquilt - wish you were closer to me. I'd give you my Mariner's Compass is a day workshop - one-on-one! I just taught 10 ladies from my guild and some of them are newbies a& some just hadn't done any paper piecing, but all have their compasses set into the setting square by the end of the day! I even converted one lady who swore she hated paper piecing into a lover of it! Once you get the hang of it, you'd be hooked. The precision is what I love most about it. My avatar is PPd.
Don't give up. If you can take a workshop, I think youmight come to love it, too. Sometimes just having someone else there to help walk you through the process can make a huge difference.
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