Originally Posted by saf
as a newbie to quilting, I hope you don't mind if I comment. I have done pattern reading myself before taking a basic class. It was difficult because one thing that I learned is that I am that 'visual learner'. It taught me something about myself as a student. The other thing is that until you have some familiarity with the task you do not know what questions to ask...I'm not sure that that makes sense. I only know that I ask different sorts of questions about instructions than I do about demonstrations. Is that any help to you?
I know what you mean about not knowing what questions to ask because you are still too new at something. I also know in my case that sometimes I have trouble remembering things, especially things I read because of medication I am on. You never know what the circumstances of a student may be.