Originally Posted by mpeters1200
Tim wrote:
BTW - I am a software engineer with a background in photography.
tim in san jose
Um wow. The reason that I have stayed at beginner beginner status for 5 years is that I am really hideous at math. It seems as if Mr. Tim has more talent in his pinky nail than I have in my whole being. I have to follow a quilt pattern exactly or I make really silly mistakes. It also seems that if I tackle a pattern that says easy, but doesn't look easy it takes me forever and a day. I'm glad I love it so much or I would have given up a long time ago. My step son has an amazing math brain, I have to bug him whenever I look at a pattern to decide if I want to do it or not. It sounds like you could copyright your own patterns!!
Melissa
Ummm.... no! First off, I hate any math beyond trig. Second, I spent my high school years being told not to ever expect to be an engineer, I didn't have the math skills. (What do guidence councilers know anyway?) I made it through engineering school at the old age of 35 by sheer determination (and there were no jobs outside the university in the early 90's anyway). My only real skills are being meticulous and pig headed (if there are any pigs out there, sorry for the insult).
My only advice to you Melissa is slow down, draw a picture, get the idea straight in your head and the whole project becomes much easier. I have little talent sewing, which I am sure you have a great deal of. My quilt top came out OK only because I figured out early to put a guide piece of cardboard 1/4 inch away from the needle so all my seams are pretty straight. You should see the seams in the shirt I am making. Horror show!
YBR is a really fun pattern to follow. You really can't screw it up. Mistakes are just individualizing someone elses plan.
tim in san jose