Originally Posted by
Knitette
Clear spacing between instructions, particularly on the cutting, so I can check them off as I do them without losing my place - or my sanity.
I have Dyscalculia which is a specific disability in learning or comprehending arithmetic, difficulty in understanding numbers and how to manipulate numbers. Calculating yardage is great fun.......... lol.
Below is an example of the kind of instructions which give me a headache! (This was actually pre-cutting for a class I was going to attend and ended up NOT going to as I made so many mistakes in the cutting I gave up, exhausted and disheartened
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From your main fabric cut:
8 x 2½” squares2 x 3¼” squares
3 x 5½” squares*
4 x 3¼” squares
2 x 3¼” squares
2 x 2½” squares
12 x 2⅞” squares
From the contrast, cut:
2 x 3¼” squares
2 x 2½” squares
12 x 2⅞” squares
and so it went on.
I'm with you there! I don't understand this at all. I am not a person who can do math at all. It has to say how many I have to cut. Were you suppose to cut one of each of these? Or multiple? I am totally confused. I have some bad math brain. Even adding and subtracting is hard for me. But give me a book and I can read it in a day. I can do almost anything but math. And I worked as a cashier in my little town for a while and people would give me a $10 bill and at the last minute they would throw out a nickel and a penny and expect me to figure out what to give them for change. I had to get out the calculator. They would make me feel bad and tell me how much I was suppose to give them back, but they didn't realize that I didn't know that. They weren't my only customers. Everyone did that and I hated it. I finally was able to stay home and not work there anymore. It was just a part time job for a while anyway. Boy, I felt like crying after the customers got through with me doing that.