I love the old fashioned advice I get now and then from older quilters that I run into in Joann's (some have been so kind as to stand at a distance and squint at my fabric choices for me) but sometimes it is easier to follow the newer, modern techniques. No one ever taught me to make an attic's window, I just winged it with a prayer and a dummy book on the topic. When I was done, I took it to my local sewing machine shop and the woman gasped and said, "You didn't even do it the easy way!" Well, I can say, that had I known the easy way (using hst's in the corners instead of mitering) I probably would've done it that way! But, I can say I'm pretty decent at mitering now. :lol: