Originally Posted by
Peckish
This reminded me of a retreat I went to - one of my friends brought a pattern that NONE of us could figure out!!! It looked deceptively simple, but the instructions were not clear and it was incredibly hard to figure out which way the pieces were supposed to go from the illustrations. There were 14-15 of us standing at that design board, reading the instructions, turning the pieces this way and that. 200 years of quilting experience in one room, and we could not figure that darn quilt out.
Wow, that's definitely time to hunt up the designer and get clarification and let them know nobody could figure out the instructions!
Somebody almost always brings a pattern or quilt they're stuck on to retreat to get help figuring it out.